They practised with erasers and with brush and water color on the protective coloring tint on some canceled checks of his own.

Carlton must get a check of a firm in town, a check that bore a genuine signature.

In it they would make such trifling changes in the body as would attract no attention in passing, yet would yield a substantial sum toward wiping out Carlton's unfortunate deficit.
Late as he had worked the night before, nervous and shaky as he felt after the sleepless hours of planning their new life, Carlton was the first at the office in the morning.

His hand trembled as he ran through the huge batch of mail already left at the first delivery.

He paused as he came to one letter with the name "W.