As he rushed down the main staircase to the library, where his check-book and some ready cash were locked in the safe, he met a stranger who had just been admitted and shown into the room.

" "In that case," replied Dupin, opening a drawer, and producing a check-book, "you may as well fill me up a check for the amount mentioned.

"Match this," he continued, reaching for his check-book and fountain pen and quickly filling out a check payable to "Cash" for ten thousand dollars, which he laid on the hardwood bar.

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!"

"Well, I took a peep at my check-book about a week ago and decided that it was me for the track.

Things went on nicely for a time; scratching with a pen was as easy as rubbing Aladdin's Lamp; and my blank check-book seemed to be a dictionary of possibilities, in which I could find all the synonymes of happiness, and realize any one of them on the spot.

Not only was her bag valuableworth seven or eight hundred dollarsbut all her money was in it, and a check-book she had brought out that morning, to pay Monsieur Bienvenu the rather large sum she owed him.

"If only I hadn't stuffed in that check-book!"

"All my money and a check-book I had in my gold bag have been stolen.

"All your money and a check-book full of blank checks!"

"Not the purse, nor the check-book.

How queer the money should have come back without the purse it was in, and especially the check-book.

If he had found a duplicate, and palmed it off upon her, the absence of the check-book and the presence of the money without the purse would be explained.

He made a brain-jolting change of metaphor and went on: "The plain truth, and it's not so low-down as it seems, is that a big fat check-book is admission to the grandstand with Felix.

"Oh, not at all," she replied, and then added in a tone of more sincerity: "I do have the most terrible time with my check-book.

"Whenever people look at my check-book they take so long scolding me about the way I do it that there's no time left for putting it right.

How much do you want a head?" "Sixty, 'r six" "I'll give you sixty dollars apiece for twenty-eight head, and that's just ten dollars apiece more than they're worth," broke in Aldous, pulling a check-book and a fountain pen from his pocket.

Kent ran his hands through his hair, opened the check-book and hastily filled out a check payable to himself for the remaining few hundreds.

Then Mr. Grey got out his check-book and wrote the check for twenty pounds.

Of course I can take out my check-book, and write a check for this sum of money;nothing would be so easy; and if I could succeed in explaining it to your father during his lifetime, he, no doubt, would repay me.

" Then he got out his check-book, and made Mountjoy himself write the check, including the two sums which had been borrowed.

There is my check-book signed in blank, and I authorise you to use it up to a billion dollars, and I agree to have in bank to-morrow sufficient funds to meet any checks you draw.

To that observation I did not respond although I am sure she expected that I should, check-book in hand, offer her a loan.

Having ranged all these before him in a row, he took out his check-book, filled in a page, tore it out and laid it with the rest.

" BOOKS AND READING LADY PRESIDENT"What book has helped you most?" NEW MEMBER"My husband's check-book.