No one except his brother who could possibly have deposited this money here has lived in the house.
One of those two men was the owner of that gold.

In either case, she is the only heir, and it is hers.

I am sure you would have felt this, had we chanced to discover the money on one of those winter nights you refer to.
Now in what has the moral obligation been changed by the fact that the house has come into your hands?
Not by ordinary sale, either; but simply by foreclosure of a mortgage, under conditions which were certainly very hard for Mrs.Jacobs, inasmuch as one-half the interest has always been paid.

This money which you have found would have paid nearly the whole of the original loan.

It was hers, only she did not know where it lay.