"But--your father?" hesitated Sally. "Do you--do you think anything queer--happened to him?" "That I shall never know either," answered Miss Camilla. "His symptoms looked to me like apoplexy, at the time. Now that I think it over, they might possibly have been caused by some slow and subtle poison having a gradually paralyzing effect. You see, my brother says he had seen some of the Confederate spies that day. Perhaps they had begun to suspect him, and had taken this means to get him out of the way. I cannot tell. As I could not get a doctor at the time, the village doctor, who had known us all our lives, took my word for it next day that it was apoplexy. But, whatever it may have been, I know that they both died in the service of the country they loved, and that is enough for me. It has removed the burden of many years of grief and shame from my shoulders. I can once more lift up my head among my fellow-countrymen!" And Miss Camilla did actually radiate happiness with her whole attractive personality. "But I cannot make any meaning out of that queer last line," mused Sally after a time. "Will you read it to us again, Miss Camilla, please?" And Miss Camilla repeated the odd message,--"'In case you should forget, or Father does not tell you, right hand side from house, behind twenty-seven.'" "Now what in the world can that all mean?" she demanded. "At first I thought perhaps it might mean where they had hidden the code, but that couldn't be because we found that under the old mattress in the cave. Your brother probably went out that way that night and left it there on the way." "Wait a minute," suddenly interrupted Doris. "Do you remember just before the end he says, 'do not be surprised at the state of the house. Unavoidable but all right.' Now what could he mean by _that_? Do you know what I think? I believe he was apologizing because things seemed so upset and--and many of the valuable things were missing, as Miss Camilla said. If there was such excitement about, and fear of Lee's invasion, why isn't it possible that they _hid_ those valuable things somewhere, so they would be safe, whatever happened, and this was to tell her, without speaking too plainly, that it was all right? The brother thought his father would explain, but in case he didn't, or it was forgotten, he gave the clue where to find them." Miss Camilla sat forward in renewed excitement, her eye-glasses brushed awry. "Why, of course! Of course! I've never thought of it. Not once since I read this letter. The other was so much more important. But naturally that is what they must have done,--hidden them to keep them safe. They never, never would have disposed of them in any other way or for any other reason. But where in the world can that place be? 'Right hand side from the house behind 27' means nothing at all--to me!"