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...hundreds of checks that he had scattered about Paris to lubricate his crooked schemes were found. Nearly all had been made out to cash. The stubs of the checks, presumably with the recipients' names, were missing. When this was discovered Chief Inspector Bony was promptly suspended from the Sureté Generate. With a month to think things over, Inspector Bony decided last week that the Government really meant business in its efforts to solve the Stavisky mystery. Back to his superiors went he with a suggestion that if he were reinstated he could find the missing check stubs...