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Over in the courthouse, Judge Lindman took from a drawer in his desk a thin ledger a duplicate of the one he had shown Corrigan and going to the rear of the room opened the door of an iron safe and stuck the ledger out of sight under a mass of legal papers. When Marchmont left Corrigan he went straight to the Plaza, where he ordered a lunch and ate heartily.
If wealth is the winning factor then the Allies have the advantage in weight of buying metal. Take the other side of the ledger and you see that up to November 1, 1916, the four principal allied countries, England, France, Russia and Italy, had spent on direct war cost approximately $34,000,000,000, while the total Teutonic war expenditures have been $21,000,000,000.
Chilly evenings, when he returned to his boarding-house, his room-mate, an Englishman named Sumner, grilled a herring over their small open fire, and this was a great feast. He tried writing obituary poetry, for the "Philadelphia Ledger" but it was not accepted. "My efforts were not received with approval" was his comment long after.
If they had only abounded a little more in their own line she might have succumbed to their spell. But it seemed to her that they missed the poetry of their situation, transacting their pleasures with the dreary method and shortness of view of a race tethered to the ledger.
The tax-payers, instead of being as now burdened to support him, would not only be relieved of that particular grievance, but would have the satisfaction of seeing the criminal contributing large sums to the right side of the public ledger.
The baron himself had access to it by means of a secret staircase. There, matters of business were decided. It was the bolting room where proposals were sifted; the privy council chamber where the reports of the money market were analyzed; circular notes issued thence; and finally, the private ledger and the journal which summarized the work of all the departments were kept there.
"That is too much, for I hear that her friend has come to grief. Do not decline the order, but avoid taking fresh ones." Van Klopen made a few mysterious signs in the margin of his ledger. "On the 6th of this month the Countess de Mussidan gave us an order a perfectly plain dress for her daughter. Her account is a very heavy one, and the Count has warned us that he will not pay it."
So to the office again, very busy, and in the evening to Sir Robert Viner's, and there took up all my notes and evened our balance to the 7th of this month, and saw it entered in their ledger, and took a receipt for the remainder of my money as the balance of an account then adjusted. Then to my Lord Treasurer's, but missed Sir Ph. Warwicke, and so back again, and drove hard towards Clerkenwell,
In October, 1760, his ledger contains an item of seven shillings "To the Printing Office ... for Advertising a run-a-way Negro." In 1761 he pays his clergyman, Rev. Mr. Green, "for taking up one of my Runaway Negroes £4." In 1766 rewards are paid for the "taking up" of "Negro Tom" and "Negro Bett." The "taking up of Harry when Runaway" in 1771 cost £1.16.
"I'll take a look at it some time," said Jettison, putting the pamphlet in his pocket. "Well, now, I also understand that Collishaw was in the habit of bringing you a bit of saved money now and then a sort of saving fellow, wasn't he?" Stebbing nodded assent and reached for a ledger which lay on the farther side of his desk.
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