“Under what circumstances was he arrested?” was the next query.

The officer explained all those particulars with which the reader is already acquainted.

“Have you searched him?”

“Yes sir.”

“With what result?”

“The four hundred pounds paid by the bank have been found upon him.”

“The cheque is a forged one—​is it?”

“The signature is genuine, but the amount has been altered.”

“We shall want the drawer and the bank clerks to depose to this fact.”

“They will be forthcoming, your worship. I don’t think there is much mistake about the forgery.”