"There're some trunks and bags in there, too," Neal said. "But they've mostly just got clothes in them. And a shotgun—" "But why would anyone wall up luggage and mail in a cave?" Mother questioned. "Pinto told us a story about how once some men going east offered a lot of extra money to a driver to get them through when the Apaches were raiding. The driver knocked out the station man when he said they shouldn't go. They might have taken this extra weight out of the coach to go faster. But they were never heard of again," Neal continued. "Why leave luggage in a cave instead of in the station itself?" Father wondered. "Well, no matter how it got there, you found it. And this"—tie picked up the mail bag—"will certainly cause quite a stir. Its contents will be delivered quite a few years late." "Dead letters." Parky relished those words. "Neal said they're dead letters." "But Marlene can't have Lady Maude, can she?" Perks piped up. "She doesn't own her— or the treasure in there, either—" She pointed to the strongbox.
