"Mrs. Dubose lived alone except for a Negro girl in constant attendance, two doors up the street from us in a house with steep front steps and a dog-trot hall. She was very old; she spent most of each day in bed and the rest of it in a wheelchair. It was rumored that she kept a ___________ concealed among her numerous shawls and wraps." What was it rumored that Mrs. Dubose kept concealed among her wraps? *