The Black-Heart Holmes Account-Book

On the first page there were only some scraps of writing, such as a man with a pen in his hand by to make for idleness or practice. The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries. There was a date at one end of the line, and at the other a sum of money, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two. On the 12th of June, 1745, for instance, a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone, and there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause. In a few cases, to be sure, the name of a place would be added as off carc

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