worn I can’t make out the emblem. Was this your husband’s also? Is there anything else?”

“That’s all. Yes, they war hisn. I war plumb mad at Farwell. I nevah could get ovah what he done, all so’t he mount sure kill somebody. Likely he meant them bullets fer the revenue officers, should they come up with him.”

“It would have been a great pity if he had destroyed this mark. I think — I’m not sure — but if it’s what I imagine, it is from an old family in Wales.”

“I reckon you’re right, fer they were Welsh — his paw’s folks way back. He used to say the’ wa’n’t no name older’n hisn since the Bible. I told him ‘twar time he got a new one if