That autumn the stone-pit near the cottage was drained, and at the bottom they found a skeleton with Dunstan Cass's watch and whip, and beside it the weaver's gold. Godfrey went home white and shaken. Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later, he said, and he told his wife the whole truth about Molly and the child. Nancy and Godfrey had no children of their own. That evening they went to the weaver's cottage and offered to take Eppie and make her a lady. Godfrey said that he was her father and had a natural claim on her. Eppie held Silas's hand and would not let it go. I can't think of any other home, she said. I've always been used to him, and I should have no delight in life any more if I was forced to go away from my father. In the spring she married Aaron Winthrop, and Silas lived with them to the end of his days.