It was he that loaned me the money to get away from here with." "Tell me," said Uncle John, thoughtfully, "did your father receive stock in the Almaquo Timber Tract Company in exchange for his money ?" "Oh, yes; I have seen it in the steel cupboard," replied Joe.
"Where is that ?" "Why, it is the cupboard in the right wing of our house, which was the Captain's own room.

It was one of his whims, when he built, to provide what he called his 'bank.' You may have noticed the wooden doors of a cupboard built into the stone wall, sir ?" "Yes; I occupy the room." "Behind the wooden doors are others of steel.

The entire cupboard is steel-lined.

Near the bottom is a sliding-plate, which, when pushed aside, discovers a hidden drawer--a secret my father never confided to anyone but me.

He once told me that if his heart trouble earned him off suddenly I ought to know of the existence of this drawer; so he showed me how to find it.