All seemed to be perfectly straight--payments to tradesmen, to real estate agents, payments of all sorts, all carefully labeled.
"Oh, he'd never let anything like that lie around," remarked Anita, as she began to comprehend what Constance was after.
Constance was scrutinizing some of the checks more carefully than others.

Suddenly she held one up to the light.

Apparently it was in payment of legal services.
Quickly she took the little bottle of brownish fluid which she had brought with the sponge.
She dipped the sponge in it lightly and brushed it over the check.

Then she leaned forward breathlessly.
"Eradicating ink is simply a bleaching process," she remarked, "which leaves the iron of the ink as a white oxide instead of a black oxide.
The proper reagent will restore the original color--partially and at least for a time.

Ah--yes--it is as I thought.