The $500 Check — page 170: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

BERT OBTAINS WORK. 155 ‘¢ No, of course not!’’? answered Bert, indig- nantly. ‘‘Didn’t you know I was acquit- ted, and that it was shown that there were two twenty-dollar bills ?’’ ‘It’s wicked to steal,’’ observed the farmer, apparently a little anxious still. ‘¢ Of course it is.’’ ‘‘One of the boys that worked for me stole some money from a chest-of-drawers in my chamber. You see Mis’ Wilson and me sleep in a bedroom on the first floor openin’ out of the settin’ room.”’ ‘‘Did the boy take much ?’’ asked Bert, in some curiosity. “Yes; he took a twenty-five cent piece,”’ answered Silas Wilson,soberly. Bert wanted to laugh, but controlled his facial muscles, though he eyed his companion with a queer look. ‘That was a good deal of money,’’ he said, | soberly. ‘SYes, it was.” | ‘How did you find him out—the boy, I mean ?”’ ‘‘He spent the money at Jones’s store.”’ “S (E(@) mn GOomichoo