seal

“Good,” said he; “it was time,”—and he sealed his will with three seals.

The papers had been made up into sealed envelopes, one or two of which had been opened by the police.

When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.

It was the simplest thing in the world for him to take a wax impression from the seal, to moisten it in as much blood as he could get from a pin-prick, and to put the mark upon the wall during the night, either with his own hand or with that of his housekeeper.