‘Is this the cheque?’
‘It has been altered.’
‘Explain in what manner?’
‘There has ‘ty’ been put at the end of the written ‘seven,’ and a cipher after the figure 7 making it 70.’
‘You are sure that it was not so when it went out of your possession?’
‘Perfectly sure.’
Mr. Calderwood seemed to have done with her, and said, ‘Thank you;’ but then there stood up a barrister, whom she suspected of being a man her mother had disliked, and she knew that the worst was coming when he said, in a specially polite voice too, ‘Allow me to ask whether the cheque in question had been intended by Mr. Mohun for the prisoner?’
‘No.’
‘Or was it given to you as pocket-money?’
‘No, it was to pay a bill.’