The $500 Check — page 202: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXII. A PANIC AT FARMER WILSON’S. ILAS WILSON was not a brave man, and at his wife’s suggestion he turned pale, and looked panic-stricken. ‘*Do—you—think so?”’ he asked feebly. ‘“DoTIthink so? I Knowso,’’ returned Mrs. Wilson energetically. ‘* How could he get up there?”’ Mrs. Wilson walked to the window, and her lynx eyes detected the ladder by which Phineas had climbed to the window of Bert’s room. ‘*Do you see that?’’ she asked. It is rather surprising that she did not sus- pect Bert of knowing something about the matter, but she had not yet had time to put two and two together. ‘‘Tt’?s terrible!’’ murmured S'!as, mopping the cold perspiration from his forehead. ‘What can we do?”’ ‘What can wedo? Go and get your gun, 183 GEomicboo <S (E(@) m