Said that Daisy was as much my mother as yourn, even if we did have different fathers, and that the chest had always belonged in Daisy's family and not Captain Kit's, an' that it was mine, an' what was mine she had some say-so about." "It's all right," Saxon reassured him.

"She sold it to me last night.
She was waiting up for me when I got home with fire in her eye." "Yep, she was on the warpath all day after I mentioned it.

How much did you give her for it ?" "Six dollars." "Robbery--it ain't worth it," Tom groaned.

"It's all cracked at one end and as old as the hills." "I'd have given ten dollars for it.

I'd have given 'most anything for it, Tom.