Of course, if anybody found out who he was, that ended his scheme, and he knew it.

So he supposed all he had to do at the last was to sign his name to that note, and everybody would know who he was, and David would at once be sent to his own people.

(There's an aunt and some cousins, I believe.) You see he didn't reckon on nobody's being able to READ his name! Besides, being so ill, he probably wasn't quite sane, anyway." "I see, I see," nodded Simeon Holly, frowning a little.

"And of course if we had made it out, some of us here would have known it, probably.
Now that you call it to mind I think I have heard it myself in days gone by--though such names mean little to me.

But doubtless somebody would have known.