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Also, Mayes knows that we have his cheque-book and know his bank. Didn't I assure you we were watched last night? I believe he knows all we have done. In such circumstances he might risk his jackal's liberty by sending him on the desperate chance of cashing a cheque, but, knowing the risk, he would never have let him come with information on him.
She went to a drawer in her writing-table and quietly took out a cheque-book. "We were delayed in returning to England by my illness," she said, as indifferently as she could. "Mr. Campion has gone out for the purpose of seeing to this." Her heart smote her for making a statement which she could not vouch for, but as Mr.
"Well, well!" said McCloskey, somewhat startled and alarmed at Stevens's threat of self-destruction "well, I'll come down a thousand make it four." "That I'll do," answered the old man, tremblingly; and reaching over, he drew towards him the cheque-book.
Even into a room which had been home to each, which they had held must always be home to both, something of Helen came like a little ghost. 'You'll have use for some money about now, said Howard abruptly. He drew out the table drawer; inside were scraps of paper, a fountain-pen, a cheque-book and some old stubs. 'Time's up for a payment, too. I sold a pretty fair string the other day.
Jane, sharpening pencils and sorting nibs, apparently only caught the drift of what he was saying, for when he had chanted the phrase, "Not alone from selfish motives, my dear Miss Champion; but for the good of my parish; for the welfare of my flock, for the advancement of the work of the church in our midst," Jane opened a despatch-box and drew out her cheque-book.
Wimp's examination was resumed. "After making these discoveries what did you do?" "I made inquiries about Miss Dymond, and found Mr. Constant had visited her once or twice in the evening. I imagined there would be some traces of a pecuniary connection. I was allowed by the family to inspect Mr. Constant's cheque-book, and found a paid cheque made out for £25 in the name of Miss Dymond.
"But do you mean to say Why, surely, there is generally something left." Turner shrugged his shoulders and sat in silence, gnawing the middle joint of his thumb. "But I must have the money!" cried Mrs. St. Pierre Lawrence. "It is most important, and I must have it at once. I withdraw it all. See, I brought my cheque-book with me.
"Don't mention it, John," the senior partner said grandly. "The firm is always glad to advance the interests of its employees in any reasonable manner. Have you your cheque-book with you? Fill it up for fourteen hundred. No more, John; I cannot oblige you by taking any more."
There was no question as to his guilt. He was the only person besides myself who had access to my cheque-book." "But " Chris said, and paused, as if to collect her thoughts. "How much was taken?" she asked after a moment. "That," Mordaunt observed, "is the least important part of the whole miserable business." "Still, tell me," she persisted. "He took five hundred pounds." "Trevor!"
His letters from the States had pleased whom it concerned, though not so much as he had meant they should; and he should be paid according to agreement and would now take up his money. It wasn't in truth very much to take up, so that he hadn't in the least come back flourishing a cheque-book; that new motive for bringing his mistress to terms he couldn't therefore pretend to produce.
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