The Crestwood Family Cache

The hidden panel gives a dry wooden click, and a section of the wall swings inward to reveal a small strongbox wrapped in dust-darkened cloth. Inside, the contents are arranged with the care of someone expecting to return: correspondence beneath the ledger, coin in a velvet purse, tools bundled neatly together, and a handful of keepsakes tucked along the edges. The noble's wealth is modest here, but the papers suggest that the cache was meant to preserve secrets as much as valuables.