H. Morrow
& Company. Any bills contracted with you by G. H. Morrow &
Company for account of the Tillicum must be paid to you by
G. H. Morrow & Company. This notice is hereby given you in order
that we may go on record as disclaiming any responsibility as
charterers prior to the departure of the said steamer Tillicum
on her next voyage.
Yours very truly,
PACIFIC SHIPPING COMPANY,
By Matthew Peasley, President.
A copy of this letter Matt sent by registered mail, with a request for
a return registry receipt, to each of the creditors of the Tillicum of
whom he could get track. He had all the receipts in hand by the last
mail delivery the next day, and at eight o'clock that night the
Tillicum, having cleared the customs the same afternoon, departed for
Panama. Two days later Matt again called on Morrow & Company for the
money due him and, after much argument, succeeded in getting it. He
hastened at once to the bank on which it was drawn and asked the
paying teller to certify it. This the latter declined to do--neither
would he cash the check; so Matt took it back to Kelton.
"Kelton," he said, "the bank will not honor your check."
Kelton looked desperate.
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