There was no concealment about him now.

He said frankly that he was from the Burr Detective Agency, whose business it was to guard the banks against forgeries.
"The pen work, or, as we detectives call it, the penning," he remarked, "in the case of that check is especially good.

It shows rare skill.

But the pitfalls in this forgery game are so many that, in avoiding one, a forger, ever so clever, falls into another." Carlton felt the polite third degree, as he proceeded: "Nowadays the forger has science to contend with, too.

The microscope and camera may come in a little too late to be of practical use in preventing the forger from getting his money at first, but they come in very neatly later in catching him.