Halsey looked on eagerly.

As she handed them back to him, not a sign showed on any part of them.
"You must tell them that there is something wrong with the others, that you will give them other certificates of your own about which there is no question.

Tell them anything to get them back.

Here--take this other fountain pen, sign the new certificates with that, in their presence so that they will suspect nothing.

To-night I shall expect you to play up to the limit, to play into Mrs.Noble's hand and assume her losses, too.