It isn't much of a note, but there's your signature plain enough." He handed Steptoe a torn piece of paper folded in a three-cornered shape.

Steptoe opened it.

He instantly recognized the paper on which he had written his name and sent up to his wife at the Boomville Hotel.
But, added to it, in apparently the same hand, in smaller characters, were the words, "Help Van Loo all you can." The blood rushed into his face.

But he quickly collected himself, and said hurriedly, "All right, I had forgotten it.

Let the d----d sneak go.
We've got what's a thousand times better in this claim at Marshall's, and it's well that he isn't in it to scoop the lion's share.