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“Certainly. They would have paid it if it had been ten thousand. Your credit is unsullied.”

“I don’t understand this, and don’t like it,” said Mr. Leonard, gravely. “Let us go over these checks and deposits. The bank may be in error. I have here my private check-book, which Will has just brought from my house; I think it likely some personal check of mine may have gone to the wrong bank. Call off the checks, and I will compare them with the check-book entries.”

They proceeded to do so, Mr. Leonard taking the memoranda and his bookkeeper called out the amounts and dates of the checks.

“Fifteen hundred and seventy-three,” he repeated. “I don’t find that. What date is it?”

“May 23d.”

“Are you sure? There is no such check of that date in either book. To whose order is it drawn?”

“To Gilbert, Cook & Co., or bearer,” said Mr. Wilson, looking up with a glance in which a doubt was struggling.

“But we owed them no such amount. They were paid in full on the 15th,” said Mr. Leonard, in excitement. “And they never would have asked for a check to be drawn to bearer. Let me see that.”