Money. Money that he absolutely did not want his father to find. He usually transferred it to his sock before he got home, so that when his father told him to turn out his pockets, there was nothing to show. But in all the stress of the events of last night and this morning, he had forgotten. He stepped back a little, out of his father's reach, but did not do as the man said, hoping Elijah's words would somehow change his father's mind.