Sally deftly climbs the steep, narrow stairs to the attic of the house. From the top of the stairs, David smiles happily at his sister"s agility.
“Did you find the chest, David?” Sally moves her fingers swiftly to sign the question.
“No,” he says, clearing away some cobwebs from the rafters. “I waited for you so we could make this mysterious discovery together.”
David and Sally carefully move and re-stack boxes and old furniture to another part of the attic to reveal the secretly stored chest Dorothy bequeathed to them.
“I wonder why no one ever found it before now.”
“I don"t know that anybody even knew it was up here but Aunt Dorothy,” David reminds her. “No one"s been up here in years.”
“It looks almost new, even though it"s an antique.”
Using the oversized key Dorothy had put in
