Precisely how old it was no one could say, but it was said to be the oldest existing habitation of the settlement.

Ravaged by perhaps two centuries of wind and weather, the old house afforded but little shelter against the boisterous gales and the bitter cold of the rude climate of the Gulf.

Its owner decided to tear it down, and in doing so he stumbled upon a startling discovery.

He found a dummy window that, generations before, had evidently been built over and concealed.

From the cavity thus disclosed he drew forth a large wooden medallion, about twenty inches across, with the portrait of a man carved in relief.