"I don't know what else you can call it," persisted Maurice. "He is going to try to get possession of some property that don't belong to him."
"I don't believe it."
"He knows of a rich gentleman of the same name, and he has forged a paper, and is trying to make out that he is his nephew, though it is well known that the nephew died years ago."
"Is that his reason for going to St. Louis?" asked Bessie, interested.
"Yes."
"How do you know?—did he tell you?"
"I have the best authority for my statements," said Maurice, who, for reasons known to the reader, did not like to tell how he gained the information; "but I am not at liberty to say more."
"You are very mysterious."
"What I have told you is the truth. If you don't call it robbery, I do."
"All I have got to say is, that if Gilbert claims to be anybody's nephew, I have no doubt he is. He wouldn't forge a paper for anything."