Word: chequebook
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim of circumstances. A garbled press dispatch is printed in London and meets the eye of Lady Furber. Lady Furber, being a woman of some decision, reaches Monte Carlo almost immediately, boards the yacht, and rings down the curtain a very few pages later...
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