I glanced at the signature. My heart ceased its beating, and a sudden cry involuntarily escaped me, although next moment I saw that by it I had betrayed myself, for Ambler Jevons sprang to my side in an instant.
But next instant I covered the signature with my hand, grasped the packet swift as thought, and turned upon him defiantly, without uttering a word.
CHAPTER XI.
CONCERNS MY PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
“What have you found there?” inquired Ambler Jevons, quickly interested, and yet surprised at my determination to conceal it from him.
“Something that concerns me,” I replied briefly.
“Concerns you?” he ejaculated. “I don’t understand. How can anything among the old man’s private papers concern you?”
“This concerns me personally,” I answered. “Surely that is sufficient explanation.”