“None of your business.”
“The point,” Mason said, “is that this check was given by a man seventy-two years old who is now confined in a sanitarium.”
“That’s too bad,” she observed without sympathy.
“His relatives will appoint a guardian if they can,” Mason said, “and when the guardian is appointed he’ll demand all the papers. When he gets the papers, he’ll find that canceled check. Naturally, a guardian wouldn’t like anything better than to start making trouble about that check. It would give him a lawsuit, attorney’s fees, extraordinary compensation.”
“What trouble could he make,” she asked, and then added significantly, “for me?”
“Lots,” Mason said.
“Leeds didn’t give that check to me,” she said hotly. “I only cashed it.”
“You have the cash,” Mason said.
“No, I haven’t.”
“You’re marrying it, then.”