The $500 Check — page 233: what you’re looking at

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214 THE $500 CHEOK. nothing is positively known of his where- abouts.”’ ‘‘Then I don’t see what can be done,”’ re- peated Bert. | ‘‘There is one thing to guide us,’’ contin- ued Uncle Jacob; ‘‘the man’s occupation. There is a fair probability that he is work- ing in some shoe town, that is, if he is still alive.”’ ‘‘There are a good many shoe towns,’’ ob- jected Bert. ‘‘True; the clew is only a faint one, yet sometimes a faint clew leads to important dis- coveries.”’ ‘‘Have you taken any steps yet, Uncle Jacob ?”’ ‘“Yes; your father remembered that Hard- ing was a Pennsylvanian by birth, and this ‘made it possible, at least, that he had gone back to his native State. Accordingly, last week, I inserted an advertisement in two daily papers printed in Philadelphia, call- ing for information touching the man of whom we are in search. I will show you a copy of it.” | Gomicbooks