The $500 Check — page 220: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXIV. THE OFFICE OF THE MAGNET MINE. ERT took the morning train to New York, and arrived about half-past seven o'clock. He met with no adventures on the way, and as soon as he reached the Grand Central Depot took a Fourth Avenue car down, as instructed by Uncle Jacob. In a Jarge building of many stories on Nassau Street, on the sixth floor, was an office on the door of which Bert read MAGNET MINING CO. This, as he understood, was the office where Jacob Marlowe was employed. Bert was considering whether he ought to - knock or not, when a brisk-looking gentle- man stepped up, and, opening the door, en- tered. Bert followed him in. ‘Whom did you wish to see?’’ asked the brisk-looking man. 201 GOoOmiiGc JOO “S