They're not sure how the fire started, maybe from a faulty chimney. Grandpa went out and rang the farm bell and everybody around came running. Aunt Ruth and Aunt Fannie shouted, "Somebody get Pa's Gold!" and two of the boys ran in and crawled across the room and got Pa's gold out from under the bed and brought it out. Since the year that Grandpa had such a good cotton crop and made lots of money which he converted to gold bouillon, he'd kept it under his bed.
There's more than enough money to build a nice new house and meanwhile, Aunts Ruth and Fannie are keeping him and Miss Lily and the gold at their house across the slough, up on the hill.
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