I should be real pleased to show you the house, ma'am.
You wait now and I'll fetch the key." Some five minutes later he reappeared with triumph in his eye and the "lost" key in his hand.
"Sorry to keep you waitin', ma'am," he explained.

"The key had-- er--stole its nest, as you might say.

Got it now, though." His visitors looked at the key, which was attached by a cord to a slab of wood about the size of half a shingle.

Upon one side of the slab were lettered in black paint the words HERE IT IS.
Barbara's curiosity was aroused.
"What have you got those letters on there for, Mr.Winslow ?" she asked.

"What does it say ?" Jed solemnly read the inscription.