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We happen to need those shares in a little matter of voting. I'll draw you a check for the full amount." He produced the daintiest of check-books and a fountain pen of a chaste design in gold. Bean's look was the look of those who see visions. "Now then, now then!" spluttered the old gentleman, the pen poised. "Don't keep me waiting; don't keep me, I say! What amount? Wha' tamount?"
There may even be doubts as to whether the majority of rich invalids would exchange their check-books for the privilege of being husky paupers in spite of the time-honored platitude concerning health. Yet Bruce could not help a certain soreness that all he had fought for so doggedly and so unavailingly came so easily as the result of a rich man's whim.
She could all but call me traitor! Very well. With bitterness, and with grim determination never to plead or to explain, I sent back by the next express the check-books and papers I was working on evenings in my room, and also by registered mail returned the bar of pearls she had once playfully removed from her own dress and pinned at my throat. "Wear it for me," she had said.
Besides this, he found five check-books in the large envelope which contained his riches. "What are these, Dad?" he asked. "Cash on deposit in local and New York banks. You might want to do some investing of your own. Or possibly you might see some business proposition you wanted to buy into." "I see some Security Power Products Company certificates. What is that?"
At this point they should have approached him with check-books and fountain pens in hand. Realizing that they must have missed a cue Anthony, with the instincts of an actor, went back and repeated his finale. "Now see here! You taken up my time. You followed prop'sition. You agreed 'th reasonin'? Now, all I want from you is, how many lib'ty bon's?" "See here!" broke in a new voice.
I was aware of the fascination of check-books, so, being armed with one, I expected to be able to buy things, in some cases, at least, without having to pay for them at once. Besides, my bank might be induced to grant me a loan. Then, too, one might issue a check before one had the amount and thereby gain a day's time.
His sharp old eyes ran up and down the column of figures. Something among the items seemed to annoy him. "Looking at those 'incidentals'? I took those from the check-books. They are pretty heavy." "It's an outrage!" exclaimed the old man, indignantly, "that there $32.50 to the telegraph company. How's it come you didn't have a Western Union frank this year? I s'posed you had one.
For the most part life goes on with external smoothness, and the public always professes surprise when some accident, a suit at law, a sudden death, a contested will, a slip from apparent integrity, or family greed or feminine revenge, turns the light of publicity upon a household, to find how hollow the life has been; in the light of forgotten letters, revealing check-books, servants' gossip, and long-established habits of aversion or forbearance, how much sordidness and meanness!
I'll sure be right there with the goods." His hands emerged, clutching a great mass of stubs, check-books, and broker's receipts. These he deposited in a heap on the big table, and dipping again, he fished out the stragglers and added them to the pile. He consulted a slip of paper, drawn from his coat pocket, and read aloud:
Hammy was a leetle too tall an' thin, and Locals, a foot or so short; but they fished out a couple of swell outfits too. We found a lot of empty check-books, an' used to play draw, settlin' at night by check. It was purty good fun for a while until we woke up. Hammy owed me ten million francs an' Locals was into me for fifteen.
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