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He was a man whose appearance was something between the aspect of a shabby-genteel half-pay captain and an unlucky stockbroker: but Clement liked the steady light of his small grey eyes, and the decided expression of his thin lips and prominent chin. The detective business happened to be rather dull just now. There was nothing stirring but a Bank-of-England forgery case; and Mr.
"A Bank-of-England five-pound note, Cobbs." "Whew!" says Cobbs, "that's a spanking sum of money, Master Harry." "A person could do a great deal with such a sum of money as that couldn't a person, Cobbs?" "I believe you, sir!" "Cobbs," said the boy, "I'll tell you a secret.
At first she persisted in asserting that the prosecution was based upon manifest error; that the impounded notes, instead of being forged, were genuine Bank-of-England paper. It was some time before I succeeded in convincing her that this hope, to which she so eagerly, desperately clung, was a fallacious one.
Another case of "uttering forged Bank-of-England notes, knowing them to be forged," which came under our cognizance a few months afterwards, revived the fading memory of Jane Eccles's early doom, and cleared up every obscurity connected with it. The offender in this new case, was a tall, dark-complexioned, handsome man, of about thirty years of age, of the name of Justin Arnold.
Behind one of the small drawers of the secrétaire portion of the piece of furniture was another small one, curiously concealed, which contained Bank-of-England notes to the amount of £200, tied up with a letter, upon the back of which was written, in the deceased's hand-writing, "To take with me."
This disgraceful story, therefore," he added, placing the journal in my hands, "cannot be true." I glanced over the police news: 'Uttering forged Bank-of-England notes, knowing them to be forged; I exclaimed, "The devil!" "There's no occasion to be spurting that name out so loudly, Mr. Sharp," said Mrs. Davies with some asperity, "especially in a lawyer's office.
But perhaps Mr. Balderby did not feel so entirely delighted two or three hours afterwards, when Mr. Isaac Hartgold presented himself before the counter in St. Gundolph Lane, whence he departed some time afterwards carrying away with him seventy-five thousand eight hundred pounds in Bank-of-England notes.
"Here, sir, is an odd coincidence: you want a hundred pounds, and you can't earn it, and you can't borrow it there's another way, it seems but I have got it a Bank-of-England note of £100 locked up in that desk;" and he poked the end of his cane against the brass lock of it viciously.
"Saying is one thing, and paying is another. Where's the money?" The sailor hesitated a moment, looked anew at the woman, came in, unfolded five crisp pieces of paper, and threw them down upon the tablecloth. They were Bank-of-England notes for five pounds. Upon the face of this he clinked down the shillings severally one, two, three, four, five.
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