She took it, shuddering faintly.
"Show me!"
He put his finger on the forged name. Stella's eyes dwelt upon it with horror for a moment, then she held out the paper to him.
"He—he wrote that?"
"He wrote it," he answered. "It is sufficient to send him——"
She put up her hand to stop him.
"And—and to earn the paper I must—marry you?"
He was silent, but he made a gesture of assent.
She turned her head away for a moment, then she looked him full in the eyes, a strange, awful look.