He raised the candle and bent his gloomy face over the paper which he held before him.

It was a note of his late firm indorsed by Lawrence Newt & Co.

He gazed at his uncle's signature intently, studying every line, every dot--so intently that it seemed as if his eyes would burn it.

Then putting down the candle and spreading the name before him, he drew a sheet of tissue paper from a drawer and placed it over it.
The writing was perfectly legible--the finest stroke showed through the thin tissue.

He filled a pen and carefully drew the lines of the signature upon the tissue paper--then raised it--the fac-simile was perfect.
Taking a thicker piece of paper, he laid the note before him, and slowly, carefully, copied the signature.