"You don't mean that it is your uncle's cash-box, Ruth?" interrupted Tom, in excitement.
"Why, you ridiculous boy!" declared Helen. "You know that was lost in the flood."
"I don't know. Do you?" Tom demanded, shortly.
"But, Ruth!" gasped Helen.
"It looks like Uncle Jabez's box," Ruth whispered.
"But the letters! Jasper Parloe's initials," cried the hard-to-be-convinced Helen Cameron.
"They're uncle's initials, too," explained Ruth, quietly.
"Whew!" ejaculated Tom. "So they are. 'J. P.—Jabez Potter.' Can't get around that."
"Well, I never!" gasped Helen.
"Do you suppose all old Jabe's money is in this?" muttered Tom, weighing the cash-box in his hands. "It can't be in coin."