"Exactly, and according to the bank rendering, made through Mr. Farley, the sum is seventeen hundred dollars--just six hundred dollars less. I cannot understand it."
Robert shook his head slowly, for he was as much puzzled as the lady.
"Let us look over the other accounts," he ventured. "Perhaps the money was transferred without a showing being made,--although I don't see how that could be."
There were six other bank accounts, running up to many thousands of dollars, but each was correct to the cent.
"You never drew a check and forgot to charge it up against the account, did you?" asked Robert.
"There is the book. Aren't all the stubs filled--I mean those from which the checks have been detached?"
Robert looked through the book with care.
"Yes, every one is filled out," he said.
"Then I don't understand it." Mrs. Vernon leaped to her feet suddenly. "Unless----" She stopped short.
"Unless----" repeated Robert, and then he, too, became silent. Both had thought of Frederic Vernon at the same time.