"Yes, it was most unnatural; but such things have been done before. Even a mother has been known to desert her own child."
"I wonder if he is alive."
"So do I. If only that word had been there!"
"Let us look at it carefully," Marjorie said; "perhaps we can make it out."
They bent together over the paper, as they held it in the light of the lamp.
"It must be a very long name," she said. "Can it all be one word? I think Lord is the first part of it. That looks to me like part of the loop of the L left above the blot."
"Yes, I think you are right. Even so, I think it is a long name—ten or twelve letters, I should say."
"Oh, I wish we knew!" said Marjorie.
"I wish it very much for one reason, Miss Douglas."
"What is that?"