He added up the columns, counted the money, subtracted the payments and arrived at the same result.
Had the difference been smaller, it might have been accounted for by a few subscriptions omitted or a few payments not entered.

But L4 10 shillings was too big a sum to leak away by accident; and, with the exception of the new goals, Fisher major was confident nothing had been spent approaching the figure.
Dalton then proposed a fresh hunt through the study, in case the missing sum might be hidden for safety in some corner.

So the room was turned upside down; the bed-clothes were shaken out, pockets searched, books turned over, tea-pots peered into; but all to no purpose.
The captain looked in while the search was proceeding.
"Have you got the-- Hullo, what's up ?" "Why," said Fisher major, "there's a discrepancy.

We ought to have L27 14 shillings 6 pence, and there's about L4 10 shillings short." "Do you mean that's missing in the Club accounts ?" "Well, either in that or the House clubs, or in both lumped together.

I say, I wish you'd add that up, there's a good fellow.