Part 2 (1/2)

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CHAPTER II

SWINDLING THE INVENTOR

The date, nu the amount of money Jack's check called for ritten

Jesse now took one of the blank checks Frank got for hi, he filled it in with the saood check; after the words: ”Pay to the order of---” he wrote, ”Bearer,” as Jack had done; before the word ”Dollars,” on the next line he wrote ”Five thousand,” and after the nature

These were unnecessary in the trick he was playing

Having satisfied hi bore a close resemblance to that on Jack's check, he laid the check he had filled out one top of the one Jack gave hireatest care, so that all the lines on one were exactly opposite the lines on the other

This he ascertained by holding theh the thin paper

When he had them matched exactly, he located a spot across the width of both where no writing was seen

Holding the checks tightly together he tore them in two, just as if the two checks were one thickness of paper

Consequently both were torn exactly alike

Taking off the two top pieces he laid thees where they were torn, and then did the saht hand piece of Jack's check, upon which were the date at the top and signature at the bottom

He then took the left hand piece of the check he had nature which Jack inscribed

The check now, instead of being for ten dollars, called for 5,000 and although a coery, and that was the principal writing studied by the paying tellers of banks

It looked like a perfectly genuine check torn in two, for as both checks had been torn together, the curves of one fit the grooves of the other piece to perfection

Jesse now burned up the re two pieces

”Eureka!” he exclaimed, with an evil smile ”I've done it well The most experienced bank clerk in the country would fail to detect the deception Now to get it cashed!”

He put on his hat, and holding the two pieces of check in his hand, he left the Sea Spider House

Making his way to the Wrightstown bank, he coolly entered, and approaching the paying teller's little brass barred , he thrust in the two pieces of check and said blandly: