7/15 "Something special, sir? "But it was a bad case--a real bad 'un. We'd a working men's building society in Wilchester in those days--it's there now for that matter, but under another name--and there were two better-class young workmen, smart fellows, that acted one as secretary and t'other as treasurer to it. They'd full control, those two had, and they were trusted, aye, as if they'd been the Bank of England! And all of a sudden, something came out, and it was found that these two, Mallows, treasurer, Chidforth, secretary, had made away with two thousand pounds of the society's money. Two thousand pounds!" "Two thousand pounds ?" exclaimed Stoner, whose thoughts went like lightning to the half-sheet of foolscap. |