The $500 Check — page 190: what you’re looking at

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AN EMBARRASSING POSITION. 173 sympathies go out toward this prodigal son. ‘*'You are young. It takes a good deal to kill a young man.”’ ‘* You're a good fellow, Bert. That’s your name, isn’tit? Will you do mea favor ?’’ ‘*To be sure I will.”’ ‘“I am famished. I haven’t had anything to eat for twenty-four hours. Can you slip downstairs and fetch me something to eat—no matter what—and a glass of milk ?”’ Bert hesitated. He could get what was re- quired in the pantry, but suppose the farmer or his wife should wake up! It would make his position a very awkward one. ‘“Hadn’t you better go down yourself?”’ he asked. ‘‘T can hardly stand, I am so tired. Be- sides, { don’t know where mother Keeps things.” | ‘‘T will try,’ said Bert; and he slipped on his pantaloons, and went softly downstairs. Gomichoo Ss