The $500 Check — page 231: what you’re looking at

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o12 THE $500 CHECK. - some good while I live. It gives a man some- thing to live for.”’ After supper, which was taken at a restau- rant near by, Uncle Jacobsaid: ‘‘ Now let us come to business. I promised your father that I would do what I could to prove him innocent of the charge made against him ten years since.”’ ‘Where is my father? Is hein the city?” ‘‘No; itis not safe for him to stay here, as he is subject to arrest, and might be recognized. He has gone back to Canada. Do you know the particulars of his story ?’’ ‘‘’Yes ; mother told me all about it last night.”’ ‘You know then that a young man named Ralph Harding informed against him, and that it was his testimony that led to your father’s arrest.”’ 66 Yes.’’ ‘Your father is under the impression that this Harding was in league with Albert Marlowe, and was employed by him to throw suspicion upon your father. The weak point of the pros- ecution was that your father could only be connected with the five-hundred dollar bond found in his overcoat pocket, while a large bal- (E(@) AA) C JOO cS