The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1908-09-10

so far so Cood-but in a few DAYS he'
checks BEGAN TO come in with alarm
ing frequency. They we're all made
ont in perfect FORM and there was no
doubt about her signature, so there
was onthing for US 10 do but pay them
She had run her account down pretty
low. when one day she came in her'
self with a check 10 be cashed. II was
large check, and | thought that II
wouldn't do any harm to say a few
words about how near she was 10
oyerdrawing her account. | did so as
carefully as | could, and she turned
her face toward lie full OF amazement'
WHAT she sanD I about to over
draw my account? Why this Is the
very first check | have drawn. There
must be a mistake somewhere. You
must have mistaken me for someone
else"
1T was my turn to be astonished,
for II we really had made a mistake
as she said, II would be a pretty big
mistake. So asked her if she would
mind waiting a few minutes until |
could get the checks that we had cash
cd. She waited. and hurried through
the book and found the checks in
very short while. for l was beginning
to feel rather pale, | tell you.
"Why, where did you find these"
size asked, innocently as | laid them
out before her,
do you recognize themo' ! asked,
. feeling rather relieved.
"'Why, yes, indeed said the fair
one, not at all abashed. These are
the checks l wrote ont just for prac'
tlce, and l thought they had all been
/ burned up
What would you do in a case like
/ that? When | explained TO her that
we had cashed the checks, as they had
been made out in regular order, and
, that she would have to stand for it,,
she was perfectly furious and insisted
/ that as she had only made out the
I checks for fun that the bank ought
/ not TO take her money.
"Of course, we couldn't do anything
/ like that, and so she departed in a
/ rage, saying that she was going to tel
/ egraph her father and he would sure
| ~ do something awful.
Her father did try to make trouble
/ for us, too, but we managed to explain
| it more to his satisfaction and we fl.
nally discovered how the whole affair
/ came about. It seems that the young
/ lady had a maid who, when she was
/ given the checks to throw out, had
/ recognized their value and had at once
/ made use of them; then, seeing that
she was in danger of getting into trou.
bic over It, had quietly disappeared
leaving no trace.
The girl had been identified a short
while before by the cashier, so that
was all right, and glanced over the
bunch Of checks which she handed me.
They were mode out right, but every
one was made out TO helf Wonder.
ing why she had taken the trouble TO
make out so many when one would
have answered the purpose just as
we'll made bold to ask her Make
out one check? Why, the idea had
! never entered her head. She had
made out list of the various things
she intended to buy while she was out
shopping and so what was more natu.
raj than that she should write a check
for the estimated cost of each article.
Il tried to explain to her how easy
the other way would have been, but |
couldn't seem 70 get her to catch my
idea. Finally she got angry with me,
! and left the window in high dudgeon,
crying, Now you've mixed me all up,
and | think you are perfectly horrld.'
Il was running into hard luck that
day, for right behind her was a lady
whom | had never seen before. Yes,
have very good memory and
rarely mistake a face once It has been
presented at the window for identif.
cation. But this one was a perfect
stranger to me, and when she present
cd a check on an out.of.town bank |
knew that | should have to refuse her.
She seemed to be highly insulted at
my refusa! to take her word for who
she was. | replied that personally
would be only too glad to take her
word, but that the bank as an institu
ton could not very well afford to dc
so.
why, l have all sorts Of letters
and cards with me to show that | am
Mrs. and then she brought GU,
her purse, and took out some cards
and handed me one. took II and
glanced at the name. II was not the
name on the check, however, and
mentioned the fact to her.
! fWhVi she hagap a. oo.f,,.t-