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There was nothing dubious about Montgomery. Tossing his lantern to Bob
Turner, he seized the tin case and scampered down the ladder stairs with
a speed nothing but habit could have secured. Rushing into the ancient
drawing-room, so oddly lighted now, he flung himself headlong upon
Madam, stammering excitedly:

"Gr-gr-gram-ma! I've found i-i-i-it!"

Madam remembered the box, so valueless in itself. She had not seen it
for years. She had no faith that it held aught but trifles now. Let the
good neighbors see. A simple turn of the wrist, the commonplace key
clicked in the lock, the flat cover fell back and--the lost treasure was
revealed! All the missing jewels in their cases, all the bonds whose
value would more than lift the mortgages upon the fine old property, all
the gold in canvas sacks which would take Montgomery through college and
train him for that possible Presidency to which he aspired.

Was ever such a night? Was ever such honest neighborly rejoicing? And
were ever Marsden townsfolk so late out of their comfortable beds? For
the candles in the Jacks had long burned out before that procession of
happy people took their now darkened way homeward and Kitty Keehoty's
Hallowe'en Corkis came to its final end.

THE END.

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