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 numbers were perfect, even under the microscope; and his portraiture wonderful. He served ten years and then got out and put another series of gold notes in circulation, almost a thousand twenties in spite of being watched, before they got him again for ten more years, at the end of which he engraved the famous 'living Cleveland' plate from which the big counterfeit issue of 1912 was printed.

"He was watched, of course; so he couldn't do the printing; he had to give the plate to others who got better paper but not good enough; and the government got them all. That trial was famous, Stephen; you must have read about it."

I shook my head regretfully; I was interested in football in those days. So Wally told me:

"The government could not connect Janvier with the printing of the money but accused him of making the plates. Janvier offered no defence; he knew the secret service had him, but his attorneys put up the claim that the plates hadn't been counterfeited at all; they claimed that the printers used government plates which had been stolen!"

"Wait now!" I asked Wally, an old headline with a picture trickling through my mem-