So Mr. Banks suddenly made up his mind that he would authorize a cheque to be drawn on the "Funds."

I'll fix the salary too and make out your cheque for the full month.

There's my cheque book in that safe.

They showed me into a little cupboard, a place without any roof, and laid it there before me on the deskhis cheque and signature for the whole amount.

I shall ask for a cheque.

I'll beg his pardonthe doing of it will make me sickyou shall ask for the cheque.

A worthy cheque I always earned, And spent it like a lord.

And don’t you remember that fiver, Sam Holt, You borrowed so frank and so free, When the publican landed your fifty-pound cheque At Tambo your very last spree? Luck changes some natures, but yours, Sammy Holt, Was a grand one as ever I see,

For if the Sergeant sees me He may take me for a tramp; But if there’s any covey here What’s got a cheque, d’ye see, I’ll stop and help him smash it.

"He told me last night that he was expecting to get a cheque for twelve thousand pounds.

Joyce has got to find out where George is getting that cheque from, and I mean to look up Latimer and sound him about his dinner at Parelli's.

I know I did, because the Doctor came straight from the meeting to my house to tell me I had, and to collect the cheque.

"Pig going strong," he chattered gaily while I wrote out the cheque; "best of a good litterbust its pink ribbon yesterday; twice the weight it was when it came.

I paid my weekly cheque without being asked; without a murmur I parted daily with my swill; in fact I comported myself as though the unholy plot maturing in my breast was nonexistent.

D'YOU MIND TAKING A CHEQUE FOR THE TIP?"]

give me my cheque-booklet me give him something before he has a chance to talk to any onequick!

Then pretending to be in search of the cheque-book, she turned over the pamphlets and papers upon his desk, that she might gain time, and think how it was best to proceed.

What if ye have give me thousands upon thousands," continued he, his former good-humoured expression entirely vanishing; "it's nothing more than you ought to do for keeping yer secrets for yeand as long as ye have money, ye may expect to share it with me: so make me out a good heavy cheque, and say no more about it.

" "What do you call a heavy cheque?" asked Stevens, in a despairing tone.

" "That I'll do," answered the old man, tremblingly; and reaching over, he drew towards him the cheque-book.

And, from this point of view, might the cheque for five pounds be considered as mere restitution?

He jumped out of bed to reach the cheque, and for an hour lay with it in his hand.

He shrank and shivered and groaned; but on he went, for in his hand he held a crossed cheque, which he was bidden to get changed, and no one would change it.

To ensure a proper use of it, I handed the cheque, with clear instructions, to a clergyman in this neighbourhood, who has been so good as to jot down, on the sheet enclosed, a memorandum of his beneficiaries, which I trust will be satisfactory and gratifying to you.

He then gave me a cheque for the rent.