These acceptances proved to be four in number, amounting to exactly
forty-two thousand dollars. So that that part of my uncle's story was
confirmed. One of the acceptances was payable in Montreal, and was for
$2,283.76. The other three were payable at different banks in Toronto.
These last had been drawn at sixty days, and each of them bore a
signature presumed to be that of Richard Yardington. One of them was
for $8,972.11; another was for $10,114.63; and the third and last was
for $20,629.50. A short sum in simple addition will show us the
aggregate of these three amounts--

$ 8,972.11
10,114.63
20,629.50
---------
$39,716.24

which was the amount for which my uncle claimed that his name had been
forged.

Within a week after these things came to light a letter addressed to
the manager of one of the leading banking institutions of Toronto
arrived from Mr. Marcus Weatherley. He wrote from New York, but stated
that he should leave there within an hour from the time of posting his
letter. He voluntarily admitted having forged the name of my uncle to
the three acceptances above referred to and entered into other details
about his affairs, which, though interesting enough to his creditors at
that time, would have no special interest to the public at the present
day. The banks where the acceptances had been discounted were wise
after the fact, and detected numerous little details wherein the forged
signatures differed from the genuine signatures of my Uncle Richard. In