“Why not?”
“He has had plenty of time to put 'em away.”
“I am willing to have my mother's house searched,” said Herbert, promptly.
“Oh, they ain't there!” said Eben, significantly.
“Where are they, then?”
Eben's answer took Herbert and his lawyer, and the judge himself, by surprise.
CHAPTER XII. EBEN'S TRUMP CARD.
“I guess they're—a part of them—inside this letter,” he said.
As he spoke he produced a letter, stamped and sealed, but not postmarked. The letter was addressed: