The $500 Check — page 212: what you’re looking at

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BERT FORMS A RESOLUTION. 193 don’t he live with us? Is there some mys- tery.”’ | ‘‘ Yes, Bert, and a painful one for your un- fortunate father. It is the fear of a prison that has kept him away from home.’’ purely, _ mother,” |) said) Bert paimiully shocked, ‘‘ my father was not a criminal ?”’ ‘‘No, but circumstances made him appear such.”’ ‘* Tell me the story.”’ ‘‘It is time that you heard it. Ten years ago your father and Albert Marlowe were em- ployed by Weeks Brothers, large shoe manu- facturers in a Massachusetts town. Both were skilled workmen——’’ ‘Did Squire Marlowe work at the bench ?”’ ‘* Yes, his position was precisely the same as your father’s, no worse and no better. Both received the same pay—two dollars a day.”’ | ‘‘ Does Percy know this?’ ‘* Probably not. Albert Marlowe is not fond of speaking of his early days when he was a common workman. At that time our families were intimate and associated on equal “S (E(@) (E(@) mn Cc JOO