The $500 Check — page 186: what you’re looking at

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AN EMBARRASSING POSITION. 169 two dollars, but whenever the paper arrived he groaned in spirit over the cost, and deplored his extravagance in subscribing for it. The room assigned to Bert was over the kitchen, which was in the L part. The roof was sloping, and, toward the eaves, very low. There was one window near the bed which he occupied. Bert went to sleep in ten minutes, and slept soundly for three or four hours. Then some- thing roused him, and he opened his eyes. What he saw startled him. By the bright moonlight he perceived a man climbing in at the window. To say that Bert was perfectly calm would not be true. He was very much startled, as I think almost any boy, or man either, would have been under the circumstances. ‘‘Itis a burglar!’’ thought Bert in excite- ment. ‘‘ What can I do?”’ Some one evidently had heard of Silas Wil- son’s miserly disposition, and judged that there would be a good chance to secure booty in the farm-house. Bert, though he did not admire Mr. Wiison, felt that it was his duty | o)(oYo) CSi