The $500 Check — page 247: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXYVII. A BOARDING-HOUSE IN HARRISBURG. T the supper table Bert made acquaint- ance with his fellow-boarders. There were eightin all. Three of them worked in the shoe factory where Ralph Harding had been employed, two young ladies were saleswomen in a dry-goods store, Professor Silvio and wife taught a dancing school, and the eighth was the landlady’s daughter, a young woman of twenty-five, who resembled Mrs. Stubbs closely. Bert learned afterward that she was employed in a millinery store. ‘¢Gentlemen and ladies,’’ said Mrs. Stubbs, - as Bert took the vacant chair that had been assigned to him, ‘‘let me intrcduce a new boarder, Mr. Barton.’’ Eight pairs of curious eyes were fixed tpor Bert, and he blushed a little, not being accus tomed to the scrutiny of strangers. 228 Gom G JOO ESS