Don't forget to call up the office a little before the time I usually arrive there and tell them I am ill." With her light-fingered touch she worked feverishly, partly with the liquid ink eradicator, but mostly with the spun-glass eraser.

First she rubbed out the cents after the written figure "Twenty-five." Carefully with a blunt instrument she smoothed down the roughened surface of the paper so that the ink would not run in the fibers and blot.

Over and over she practised writing the "Thousand" in a hand like that on the check.

She already had the capital "T" in "Twenty" as a guide.

During the night in practising she had found that in raising checks only seven capital letters were used--O in one, T in two, three, ten, and thousand, F in four and five, S in six and seven, E in eight, N in nine and H in hundred.
At last even her practice satisfied her.