He took it out gingerly, holding it at arm's length, throwing open the cylinder and spilling out the cartridges on the bed, very careful to let none of them fall on the floor lest they should explode.
Next he drew out the familiar little canvas sack.

In it were twenty-dollar gold-pieces, the coin that used to be "Good for the Masses." Behind that was about thirty dollars in two rolls, and last of all in an old, oblong tin cracker-box a great bundle of papers.

A list of these papers was pasted on one end of the box.

They comprised deeds, titles, insurance policies, tax receipts, mortgages, and all the papers relating to the property.

Besides these there was the will.
He took out this box, laying it on the shelf beside him.