The $500 Check — page 210: what you’re looking at

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A PANIC AT FARMER WILSON’S. 191 fection which had been absent from them for years. She looked contented and happy, now that her boy was restored to her. ‘‘Got back again, Phineas, hey ?’’ said Silas _ Wilson. ‘ You’re lookin’ kinder peaked.” ‘‘'Yes, father, ’'ve been sick, but now——”’ ‘‘Tll soon get him weli!’’ interposed Mrs. Wilson. ‘‘TVll go right down and bring up some break fast.”’ ‘‘T can eat it, mother. I have had nothing except the bread and milk Bert brought me.”’ On Wednesday evening Bert closed his en- gagement with the farmer, and declined to continue it, though urged strongly to do so. He went home in a whirl of excitement, for Phineas Wilson had told him something which overwhelmed him with astonishment. GOMmIichoo “S) (E() m