The $500 Check — page 165: what you’re looking at

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148 THE $500 CHECK. may have it In my power to employ you in an important matter. Bring all your clothes with you, but take only money enough to get to the city, leaving the balance with your mother. Give my love to her, and tell her to keep up good courage. Your affectionate unc:e, JACOB MARLOWE. “Tam to go to New York!” thought Bert joyfully. ‘‘ Perhaps Uncle Jacob will find me a placethere. I shall enjoy that ever so much. Let me see, 1 am to go next week, Thursday, and itis now Saturday. I wish the time had come !”’ Of course, Bert carried the letter home and showed it to his mother. ‘““How kind Uncle Jacob is!” she mur- mured. ‘* But l am airaid he is too generous. He isa poor man. He cannot afiord to be giv- ing us money all the time.”’ ‘“He is earning a good salary, you Know, mother.”’ ‘““Only twelve dollars a week, Bert.”’ “But that is a good deal. Ii I were earning twelve dollars a week I should feel rich.”” Gomicboo <S (E) m