It was mother's, you know.

I remember it in her room when she was still alive." In the woodshed Tom resurrected the hidden treasure and took off the wrapping paper.

Appeared a rusty, steel-scabbarded saber of the heavy type carried by cavalry officers in Civil War days.

It was attached to a moth-eaten sash of thick-woven crimson silk from which hung heavy silk tassels.

Saxon almost seized it from her brother in her eagerness.