Summary

Chapter 27, “The Ring in Danger”, took place in 1904-1905. Clyde gave Arden a ring, but Arden was not ready to discuss whether or not they would get married. One night on stage she realized she didn’t have a prop coin that she needed for one of her illusions, so she improvised and used the ring instead. Afterwards, Arden told Clyde that she didn’t want to marry him. She told him the timing wasn’t right, but she secretly worried that he was only proposing marriage to get her money and that he was being insincere, just like the first time he proposed to her.

Arden made the Halved Man trick more shocking by adding fake blood and the show became even more successful. Adelaide wrote to congratulate her. Clyde asked Arden to stop performing the Halved Man illusion but she refused...