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Updated: June 1, 2025
They're dated yes, they're all dated July 1. I was here yesterday I remember signing the cheques May 4, it was. What the " He stopped short. The office boy had performed his duty. Opposite to him stood the great calendar recording the date July 2 stared him in the face. Mr. Weatherley put his hand to his forehead. "Come here, Chetwode, quickly," he begged.
He was in debt, had fraudulently drawn cheques when he had nothing at the bank to meet them, and was so reduced to poverty that he had pawned his watch and his case of surgical instruments. By the death of the brother in 1879, the two sisters received each a sum of £800.
The deal proceeded, Chorley drawing the cards with that air of imperturbable sang-froid so characteristic of his class. "Ace wins," cried a voice, as two aces came forth together. "Pay you in cheques, sir?" asked the croupier. I assented, and a flat round piece of ivory, of a red colour, with the figure 5 in its centre, was placed upon my half-eagle. I permitted both to remain upon the ace.
In his own heart Ferris cared not a whit whether Clayton had been waylaid by accidental thugs, betrayed at the bank, duped by some insidious woman, or slain by an inner conspiracy of the employees. "The money is gone, the cheques will probably be replaced," he grumbled. "Damn the company's interests! I am glad of their loss. The Worthington Estate will probably make it good.
But at the present moment we hold very little that is, comparatively little money of his." "What?" said Mr. Portlethorpe. "What? You don't mean that?" "During the past three or four months," said the bank manager, "Sir Gilbert has regularly drawn very large cheques in favour of a Mr. John Paley. They have been presented to us through the Scottish-American Bank at Edinburgh.
I saw a large number of cashiers, all at their desks ready to pay cheques, and one or two who seemed to be the managing partners. I also saw my hostess and her daughters and two or three other ladies; also three or four old women and the boys from one of the neighbouring Colleges of Unreason; but there was no one else.
He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information.
Fortunately, when trying the dodge in another set of chambers, he was arrested in the act, and my blank cheques among many others were found upon him. Another term of penal servitude has stopped his career and put an end to, I will not say a friendship but an acquaintance, that I am not at any rate anxious to renew.
For instance, when Baxter and Donovan delivered that well-timber in the Quondong Paddock, the other day, they were n't five mile from the main road and a gate to go through but he made them come right back by the station; thirty mile of a roundabout; and their cheques were n't forthcoming till they did it.
The floor is littered with rubbish old wool-bales, newspapers, boots, worn-out shearing pants, rough bedding, etc., raked out of the bunks in impatient search for missing articles signs of a glad and eager departure with cheques when the shed last cut out. To the west is a dam, holding back a broad, shallow sheet of grey water, with dead trees standing in it.
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