He may have been going to give it to you; but you had company, you remember, in here, and he may have heard voices.
Anyhow, we know that he put it in the tureen because--" here I lifted the lid--"because--" I was almost as excited and trembling and beside myself as they were--"because it is here now." They looked, then gazed in each other's face and bowed their heads.
Silence alone could express the emotion of that moment.

Then with a burst of inarticulate cries, Miss Charity rose and solemnly began dancing up and down the great room.

Her sister looked on with grave disapproval till the actual nature of the find made its way into her bewildered mind, then she reached over and plunged her hand into the tureen and drew out the five bonds which she clutched first to her breast and then began proudly to unfold.
"Fifty thousand dollars!" she exclaimed.

"We are rich women from to-day," and as she said it I saw the shrewdness creep beck into her eyes and the long powerful features take on the expressive character which they had so pitifully lacked up to the moment.

I realized that I had been the witness of a miracle.