Ordeal by Cheque by Morgan Murphy

Once upon a time there was a man named Mr. Lawrence Exeter. One day his wife Mrs. Lawrence Exeter came home and told him that she is due to have a baby. When he found this out he and his wife went out to the store and bought some baby clothes. The baby was born in Hollywood hospital September 2nd 1903.The baby became very sick and had to go back to Dr. McCoy. Mr. Lawrence Exeter goes to the California Toyland Co. to pick up some presents for the baby for the boys 3rd birthday.
A few years later they send the boy to an all boy school to make sure he turns into a gentlemen. Since the boys got straight A’s on his report card they got him a bicycle. They taught him how to ride a bike thought the whole summer. The boys started to act up during the summer and disrespect his family and friends. For the start of the next school year, the parents made him go to the Columbia Military Academy. They hoped that it would make him into the gentlemen he needed and they wanted him to be. When he graduated the Military school and his parents saw that he was a nice, sincere, grown gentleman they decided that he deserved a gift. They got him a Cadillac for his graduation. He hadn’t had the car for 5 days and he wrecked the car and had to take it to the auto repair shop. After graduating from the military school he decided to go to college. He went to Stanford University. When he was there he met a girl named Miss Daisy Windsor and fell in love with her. When he got home from graduating Stanford, his father took his new found love Daisy and his mother on a cruise to France.
When they were in France his father bought the ladies flowers from the club everyday. They had a wonderful time and the son decided to have Miss Daisy Windsor move in with him. The father decided to buy a house for them from Riviera Heights Land Co. since there house was not large enough. He even decided to get the house decorated for them as a present. Him and his son went out and bought a new diamond ring from Beverly Diamond and Gift Shoppe. He decided to propose to her on the Hawaii Steamship. Lawrence Exeter Sr. wrote a check to his son for $200,000. The father also paid for the hotel room for their honeymoon. He bought flowers for them and sent the flowers to the room they were staying in to congratulate them. Lawrence Exeter Jr. sent his first check. Because his father started to become very ill and could not write any checks Jr. started to pay off the wedding dress. Later in the week he went to the salon with his new wife.
The next month he went to the sports bar with his dad to catch up and have some laughs and talk about the wedding. While they were there they met a man named Tony Spagoni. They made some fun bets with him and next thing they knew they owed him a lot of money. He said that they better pay him or else his new bride would disappear. After the sports bar they decided to met up again and they went to the bootery and bought some new shoes instead of the sports bar. They decided to start paying off Tony. It took them two different checks to be able to pay him back. The son bought flowers for his father and sent them to him hoping that it would make him feel better.
Lawrence again paid off the diamond that he bought for Daisy. After a couple years of being together, Daisy had to much and filled for divorce. Then Jr. had to pay for his and her lawyer, trying to be a good and proper man like his parents raised him. Tony Spagoni came back and said that Jr. owed him more money, so Jr. never looking and wondering if he really did owe him more money gave the money to Tony. He didn’t owe Tony anymore money but Jr. wasn’t going to argue.
Tony came back and said that Jr. owed him more money but this time Jr. wasn’t giving him anymore money. Tony didn’t like that so he ordered one of his men to kill him. He was badly beat up and the doctor said that he didn’t have a chance of living. The father started wring the checks for his sons medical bills. Jr. later died. Before his father died he wrote out a check for his wife to pay for the funeral and burial. As soon as he was done writing the check he put the pen down and died.