The cheque was made to 'L.

Mortimer,' wasn't it?
So I wrote 'L.

Mortimer' on the back.
Now do you know?
If you are L.Mortimer, so am I.Leila begins with L; so does Leroy, doesn't it?
I didn't imitate your two-words-to-a-page autograph.

I put my own fist to a cheque made out to one L.Mortimer; and I don't care what you think about it as long as Plank can stand it.
Now put up your nose and howl, if you like." But under her sudden pallor he was taking fright again, and he began to bolster up his courage with bluster and noise, as usual: "Howl all you like!" he jeered.

"It won't alter matters or square accounts with Plank.