Village Squire, 1973-06, Page 19decided, was out of the question for his project. So, on one
of his forays into his father's shop, he sneaked out a bundle
of common writing bond.
The next problem was ink, since all he had was black and
20 dollar bills were not black. A short time after one of
Peter's visits one of the men at the plant noticed a small can
of green ink was missing.
And so it went until on Saturday evening Peter finally pro-
duced a bill that he was satisfied with. It wasn't too bad,
considering the primitive equipment, makeshift ink and the
age of the printer, but to anyone who took more than a pass-
ing look, it was a definite forgery. The paper was the wrong
texture: the ink the wrong shade and with a tendency to rub
off on the hands of the holder. Yet Peter was justifyably
proud.
He had to face a decision now. Should he destroy the bill?
Somehow looking at his "masterpiece", the product of his own
hands he couldn't face that decision. In fact, the idea that
even by accident this lone specimen might be destroyed set
him to making more copies. By nine, when ht mother called
him to go to bed, he had a nice little stack of seven bills on
one corner of the workbench.
His mother had called twice by the time he had finished
the seventh bill so he hurried up the steps, forgetting to hide
the bills away.
After Sunday Sc hool the next day, Peggy was on her way
home with Brian McGintee and Michael Townshend. Some-
how the topic of the package she had found that day had come
up and the boys hadn't believed her when she told them about
the printing plates. So she was going to prove her point by
showing them to the boys.
She led the way into the shop. She picked up the plates
and was showing them to Brian when Michael Townshend
discovered the little cache of bills and gasped. He wasn't
allowed to roam his father's bank like the other boys could
in their father's offices so although he was near money most
of the time in his apartment home above the bank, he very
seldom saw more than his 50 cent allowance.
"Oh, that", said Peggy when she was the object of his
astonishment, "thats just play money that Peter ran off from •
the plates. Here, have some if you want. "
The boys took three of the bills each as they left and would
have argued over the seventh if Peggy hadn't intervened.
When Peter came home from church a little later he went
straight to the shop, after a stopover to change from his suit
to his bluejeans. When he saw only the one bill left he cal-
led Peggy.
"I gave them to the boys", she explained simply.
The older, wiser brother froze in fear. He knew now that
he shouldn't have made the bills.
"Look Peg, " he said, "don 't tell anybody about the bills
or the plates or anything. Promis me now, promise me."
Bewildered, Peggy promised. Peter sent her out right
away. Then he tore the last of the bills into tiny bits and took
the plates and buried them deep in the garbage can that
would be picked up early the next morning. He settled down
fearfully to wait what was certain to happen.
The certain did happen but it took so long coming that
Peter was beginning to relax, thinking that perhaps the boys
really had thought the bills were playmoney. But more than a
week later the rumour blew through the town that a counter-
feit bill had turned up at the bank. The bank tried to hush the
whole thing up because it wasn't them that discovered it but
one of the customers who noticed the bill was different when
the teller tried to give it to him in payment for a cheque. The
bill was such an obvious forgery with its strange colour and stiff
paper that the people at the bank were embarrassed at having
accepted it from someone else. They didn't know that it was
Michael Townshend, the manager's son who had passed the bill
when he deposited it in his account, after all, who mistrusted
the boss' son?
Two days later a second counterfeit twenty dollar bill turned
up under similar circumstances at a sporting goods store when
the owner tried to make change for a salesman. Who would
have suspected the police chief's son would buy a new basket-
ball with a phony bill?
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