The $500 Check — page 225: what you’re looking at

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206 THE $500 CHECK. ‘‘Oftener, if I please,’’ answered Jacob Mar. lowe, seeming amused. ‘If I happen to get short in the middle of the week, I can draw in advance. ’’ ‘“‘You seem to have a very good position, Uncle Jacob. It is a great deal better than opening a cigar store in Lakeville.’ ‘‘Yes, I think so myseli—Albert Marlowe was right in advising me against it. Have you seen him lately ?”’ ‘“T see him about every day, but not to speak to.”’ ‘“Tt was mean in him to discharge you from the factory.’’ ‘*So I thought, Uncle Jacob.’ ‘‘T wrote asking him to take you back.”’ ‘What did he say?’’ asked Bert, with in- terest. ‘* He in effect told me to mind my own busi- ness. I hope you and your mother have not suffered for want of money ?’’ ‘“No, thanks to you, Uncle Jacob. Mother thought you ought not to have sent so much.”’ ‘“T don’t think I shall miss it, Bert,’’ said | Uncle Jacob. ‘‘Iam glad that it helped you.”’ - Gomichbooks