The $500 Check — page 18: what you’re looking at

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A NEW ARRIVAL IN LAKEVILLE. 5 “Tam glad to hear it. I have been a long time among strangers. It will be pleasant to come to anchor at the house of a rich relation. — Where does your mother live ?”’ ‘*In asmall cottage at the other end of the street. Won't you come home with me, Uncle Jacob? Mother will be glad to see you.”’ “T must call at Albert Marlowe’s first. What family has he?” ‘* He has one boy about my own age.”’ ‘‘T suppose you are very intimate—being cousins.”’ Bert laughed. ‘‘He wouldn’t thank you for calling us cousins,’’ he answered. ‘‘Percy Marlowe isa boy who thinks a ae deal of himself. He puts on no end of airs.’ ‘* Like his father before him. Is hea smart boy ?”’ ‘“Do you mean in his studies ?”’ 6 Yas.” | ‘*T don’t know what he could do if he tried, but he doesn’t exert himself much. He says it isn’t necessary for him, as his father is a rich man.’’ Gomichoo <S) (E(@) im