"But how about the arterial silk?" I said.
"They must have procured some from a surgeon."
"And your famous knots?"
"They got some surgeon to tie them!"
"But your crest and seal?"
"Oh! they must have taken a facsimile of that in order to reproduce it. It is very cleverly done, but quite explicable!"
"But you told me before you opened the packet that you would take your oath in a court of justice it had not been tampered with."
"I was evidently deceived."
"And you really believe, then, that an uneducated lad like Mr. Haxby would take the trouble to take impressions of seals and to procure arterial silk and the services of a surgeon, in order, not to mystify or convert you, but to gratify me, whose box he believes it to be."
"I am sure he has done so!"