But, as it stands, there is no resistance." "Resistance! By God! I would resist if I shot him dead, or shot myself.
Stay--wait--one moment! If it be an error in the sense you mean, it must be a forgery of your name as of mine.

You think that ?" "I did not say so." The Seraph gave him a rapid, shuddering glance; for once the suspicion crept in on him--was this guilt?
Yet even now the doubt would not be harbored by him.
"Say so--you must mean so! You deny them as yours; what can they be but forgeries?
There is no other explanation.

I think the whole matter a conspiracy to extort money; but I may be wrong--let that pass.

If it be, on the contrary, an imitation of both our signatures that has been palmed off upon these usurers, it is open to other treatment.
Compensated for their pecuniary loss, they can have no need to press the matter further, unless they find out the delinquent.

See here"-- he went to a writing-cabinet at the end of the room, flung the lid back, swept out a heap of papers, and wrenching a blank check from the book, threw it down before Baroni--"here! fill it up as you like, and I will sign it in exchange for the forged sheet." Baroni paused a moment.