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Balch had not actually driven the pack-mules, laden with treasure, to the door of the Pelican House, where Jethro might see them from his window; but he requested a private audience, and it was probably accidental that the end of his personal check-book protruded a little from his pocket. He was a big, coarse-grained man, Mr.
It was the clipping from the newspaper, descriptive of the murdered man, which I had cut out in the train and placed in my pocketbook. "You dropped this, my friend, when you pulled out your check-book," said Simon. "You are a very poor conspirator, Paul Hewlett. Assuredly I would not have you on my side at any price. Well?" "Well?" I repeated mechanically. "Who killed him?" he shouted.
That's all right when a man works for me when a man in the other pocket, I reckon when a man why, where the mischief as that portmonnaie! when a well now that's odd Oh, now I remember, must have left it at the bank; and b'George I've left my check-book, too Polly says I ought to have a nurse well, no matter. Let me have a dime, Washington, if you've got ah, thanks.
"Heaven help us poor detectives if it wasn't!" In a word, since murder will out, Siddle had forgotten his keys! Probably, he had gone to the safe for money, and, while writing the notice as to his absence, had laid down the keys and omitted to pick them up again. Furneaux disregarded ledgers and account books. He examined a bank pass-book and a check-book.
She sat grasping one of her gloves in her doubled fist; and, leaning forward, with her eyes like jewels in her little pale face and the white aura of her veil, waited as if she thought that by some silent agency of understanding Flora would presently take up a pen and write the desired figure in her check-book.
I moved to much larger quarters, consisting of the two uppermost floors and garret of a double tenement-house of the old type. A hall bedroom was converted into an office, the first separate room I ever had for the purpose, and I enjoyed the possession of it as much as I had done my first check-book.
"I'll match it!" he exclaimed, flushing angrily, drawing his own check-book from his pocket, and then, carried away by his passion added, throwing down the bars completely as Old Heck had hoped he would, "and go with you to the end of the trail!" "Good!" Old Heck laughed, "now you are talking like a sport!
"No, Neal, you never told me; but this afternoon while you we're out I was looking for Adrian's check-book; I was sure we paid Dorman's bill last April, and that I took the check over myself. I was going through the desk, and I got on your side, thinking I might have left the check-book there by mistake, and I ran into the very midst of those letters, before I knew what I was about.
It was not money now, he lusted for, but power. Money was, to him, no longer any great desideratum. At most, it could now mean no more to him than a figure on a check-book or a page of statistics in his private memoranda.
But it's no use beating about the bush. You know I dropped over two hundred just now?" He nodded. "I hadn't the money in my pocket." "I remember." "But I had my check-book, and I wrote each of you a check at that desk." "Well?" "Not one of them was worth the paper it was written on, Raffles. I am overdrawn already at my bank!" "Surely only for the moment?" "No. I have spent everything."
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