They showed this when they talked to me.
What they wanted was for me to give up these bonds to them as soon as I found them.

They seemed to think that I might run across them in settling, and made me promise to wake them day or night if I came across them unexpectedly." "How pathetic!" I exclaimed.

"Do you suppose they have appealed in the same way to every one who has come in here ?" "No, or some whisper of this lost money would have become current in the neighborhood.

And it never has.

The traditions associated with the house," here her manner changed a little, "are of quite another nature.
I suppose the old gentleman has walked--looking, possibly, for his lost bonds." "That would be only natural," I smiled, for her mood was far from serious.