"You received that sum and signed for it in your father's name?--in the name of your father-in-law also? One hundred thousand crowns? What has become of the money?"
"It is lost," said Oscar.
"Lost?"
"It was to pay the debts I had already contracted."
"Was that at Monte Carlo?"
"Yes."
There was another long silence, in which Oscar stood with quivering lips and the Governor with contracted brows.
"But this document--how did it come about?"
"I ask myself that question over and over again, father, and I fail to find an answer. I can not understand myself--I try and I can not."
"Were you mad?"