“Well, there was something years ago that old Mr. Grant got hold of—something valuable—that I made out didn’t belong to him….
I don’t know what it was—never did know—but I’d hear Mrs. Grant—that was Miss Mattie’s mother, you understand—tryin’ to get him to give it back.
‘It can’t do us no good,’ she’d say—or words like them. And he’d always tell her that he meant to keep it for a while; if they lost everything else, this possession would keep ’em out of the poorhouse for a spell.
Mrs. Grant kept askin’ him whereabouts it was hidden, and he just laughed at her.
I believe she died without ever findin’ out….
“Well, whatever it was, Mr. Grant must have give it to Miss Mattie when he died, and she kept it hid somewheres in this house.
No ordinary place, or I’d have found it in house-cleanin’. You can’t houseclean for forty years, twicet a year, without knowin’ ’bout everything in a house…. But I never seen nuthin’ valuable outside that safe of her’n.
“So what I think is,” continued Hannah, keeping her eyes fixed on Mary Louise, “that Mrs. Grant can’t rest in her grave till that thing is give back to whoever it belongs to.
I believe her spirit visits this house at night, lookin’ for it, and turnin’ things upside down to find it. That’s why nuthin’ ain’t never stolen.
So anybody that lives here ain’t goin’ have no peace at nights till she finds it…..”
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