To-day, again, only about £15 was received by the first four deliveries of letters; at 5:45 I had for the third time that day prayer with my dear wife, entreating God to help us, and a little after 6 p.m. came a cheque for £200 by the fifth delivery, from Edinburgh.

Now, unless he wished to hide the nature of the transaction from his bankers, why not put in the cheque in the name of the person who received the money?

Within six weeks the Rev. Tudor Crisp received a cheque from distant Dorset, and the proceeds were duly invested in a saloon in San Clemente, a town some twenty miles from San Lorenzo.

What a blazing fool the fellow was (he thought) to accept a cheque on which payment could be stopped before banking hours in the morning!

Every four weeks for the past eight months Sir Horace drew a cheque for £24, and every cheque of the kind was made payable to Number 365.

Of course, I forgot to bring mine with meI always do; and equally, of course, a vexatious debt turns up and finds me without an Occidental Bank cheque to my name.

He induced her to elope with him, and suggested that she should tear a cheque out of her father's cheque-book and forge his name.

He merely pocketed the cheque with an expression of his gratitude, promising to repay it as soon as he reached London.

" "Myself," continued the daughter; "I filled up the cheque at the bidding o' Robert Stormonth, whom I had lang loved.

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.

Her suspicions thus aroused, she searches her husband's desk, discovers a private and locked bank-book, cuts it open, and finds that one large cheque after another has been drawn in favour of the lady in question.

Chaffery had induced Lagune when hypnotised to sign a blank cheque as an "autograph."

Then he spread out Lord Findon's cheque before the photograph, as though he offered it at Phoebe's shrine.

We’d whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about, So we humped our blues serenely and made for Sydney town, With a three-spot cheque between us, as wanted knocking down.

Because that is what it will infallibly do unless I get a cheque by next week.

Explaining to myself that Mr. Abrahams had clearly intimated that his gift to the Government was alternatively a cheque for five pounds or a note for a hundred francs, I put my cheque into the "Suspense" basket and pocketed the note, thus making five francs profit.

"'I bought £25,000 worth of him,' added the jeweller, as if he were speaking of so many farthings, 'and gave him a cheque across the dinner table for that amount.