"Not much," he said, significantly.
"But it's _mine_," continued Cass, indignation taking the place of shame at his discovered secret.

"I found it six months ago in the road.
I--picked it up." "With your name already written on it! How handy!" said the coroner, grimly.
"It's an old story," said Cass, blushing again under the half mischievous, half searching eyes of the girl.

"All Blazing Star knows I found it." "Then ye'll have no difficulty in provin' it," said Hornsby, coolly.
"Just now, however, _we_'ve found it, and we propose to keep it for the inquest." Cass shrugged his shoulders.

Further altercation would have only heightened his ludicrous situation in the girl's eyes.

He turned away, leaving his treasure in the coroner's hands.
The inquest, a day or two later, was prompt and final.