" He took a pin and pinned the check to his desk. There it
remained, much to the curiosity of the two boys.
The following week he had written the second article and the boys gave
him another check. He pinned that up over the other. "I like to look at
them," was his only explanation, as he saw Edward's inquiring glance one
morning.
The third check was treated the same way. When the boys handed him the
fourth, one morning, as he was pinning it up over the others, he asked:
"When do you get your money from the newspapers?"
He was told that the bills were going out that morning for the four
letters constituting a month's service.
"I see," he remarked.
A fortnight passed, then one day Mr. Beecher asked: "Well, how are the
checks coming in?"
"Very well," he was assured.
"Suppose you let me see how much you've got in," he suggested, and the
boys brought the accounts to him.
After looking at them he said: "That's very interesting. How much have
you in the bank?"
He was told the balance, less the checks given to him. "But I haven't
turned them in yet," he explained. "Anyhow, you have enough in bank to
meet the checks you have given me, and a profit besides, haven't you?"
He was assured they had.
Then, taking his bank-book from a drawer, he unpinned the six checks on
his desk, indorsed each thus: wrote a deposit-slip, and, handing the
book to Edward, said:
For deposit (??) in Bank
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