"Is that all?"
"Ain't that enough? Land sakes! I ain't no millionaire! That gold was a-going to keep me from the poorhouse." And Hiram Duff shook his head dolefully. He did not tell the young collegiates that he had an even ten thousand dollars in the banks. He had saved money all his life, denying himself and his wife almost the necessities of life.
"Do you suppose anybody else could have come in and taken the box?" said Songbird.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, did anybody come in after that fellow left?"
"How should I know?—I was down cellar."
"Did you hear anybody?"
"I heard something. Maybe it was somebody, or maybe it was my sheep. They come up to the house sometimes."
"I see."
"But what do you know about this?" demanded Hiram Duff, turning to Sam. "You said you might help me to git the money back."