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The method they took here for that purpose was by altering bank-notes, which they did so dexterously as absolutely to prevent all suspicion. They succeeded in paying away two of them, but the fraud being discovered by the cheque-book at the bank, Schmidt was apprehended and brought to a trial.
You may as well bring your cheque-book while you're about it, for this sort of thing is apt to come rather expensive." "If I had been a happy man, with no great trouble weighing upon my mind, and giving its own dull colour to every event of my life, I think I might have been considerably entertained by the society of Mr. Carter, the detective.
'Still, if I take up your time, I ought not to let you be out of pocket by it. The hostess glanced towards the little spindle-legged writing-table, where, on top of a heap of notes, lay the blue oblong of a cheque-book. 'We consider it part of every day's business to answer questions, said Miss Claxton.
The husband pulls out his cheque-book at the end of the week or month, and he says, "Well, this is rather more than we can afford," or "This is less than I expected," but he never really takes any interest in his wife's efforts to keep things nice on a little. He does not see it with her eyes and try to realise her difficulties.
But of course they're bad; they're always bad nowadays. However, Barbara's going to be married in a week; she'll be one out of the way. And of course I haven't a dress fit to be seen in for the wedding. 'Why then, get a dress. How much will it cost? He went to a writing-table, unlocked a drawer, and took out a cheque-book. 'Now then, he said, half jestingly, half in earnest, 'what is it to be?
But Strickland took long counsel with his wife, and she with the cheque-book and their lean bank-account, and they decided that Adam must go "home" to his aunts. But England is not home to a child that has been born in India, and it never becomes home-like unless he spends all his youth there.
Behind the Bosom was a large and weighty desk covered with a multitude of personal letters, belonging for the most part to Mrs. Norris, a cheque-book open and face down in mute obeisance to the blotter, newspaper clippings, spectacle cases, scissors, and ash trays.
Delia went to her writing-table, opened a drawer and took out her cheque-book. A laugh conscious and unsteady accompanied the dipping of her pen into the ink. "I wonder what he'll say?" "Who?" "Mr. Winnington when I send him all the bills to be paid." "Isn't he there to pay the bills?" Delia's face shewed a little impatience.
But, alas! she alighted at Charing Cross, and not one of us in the compartment had asked her to be his wife. The weary clerk, the sweated shopman, the jaded engineer how good it would be to say to any of them, 'Here, let us change places awhile. Here is my latch-key, my cheque-book, my joy and my leisure. Use them as long as you will.
"I managed it, you see, Miss Lorne," he said, in a slightly lowered voice, while the baron busied himself in looking for his cheque-book and Athalie bustled about in quest of ink and a pen. "It wasn't an easy night's work, and I'm a bit fagged out. So, as I leave in the morning, it will be good-bye as well as good-night." She moved for the first time.
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