Chapter XII

The little gold shoe remained on the closet shelf, perhaps not forgotten, but hidden. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, and Young’s _Concordance_ were forced to come down and assist in preparing a sermon, but Josephus stayed on the job, and so thoroughly protected the small package done up in brown paper, that no one would ever have suspected it contained a valuable diamond buckle. Then one day there came a letter for Marget from Florida, just a note, in a high scrawly hand on queer big expensive paper: “Dear Mrs. M…