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'What was the amount?'
'Five pounds for myself; seven besides.'
'In what form was the seven pounds?'
'A cheque from W.'s bank.'
'Did you part with it?'
'Yes.'
'To whom?'
'I sent it to him.'
'To whom if you please?'
'To Mr. Alfred Flinders.' And her voice trembled.
'Can you tell me when you sent it away?'
'It was on the 22nd of December.'
'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.'
'Then did you divert it from that purpose?'
'I thought the man was dead.'
'What man?'
'Professor Muhlwasser.'
'The creditor?'
'Yes.'
Mr. Calderwood objected to these questions as irrelevant; but the
prisoner's counsel declared them to be essential, and the judge let him
go on to extract from Dolores that the payment was intended for an
expensive illustrated work on natural history, which was to be
published in Germany.
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