The $500 Check — page 25: what you’re looking at

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12 THE $500 OHEOK. ““Come right upstairs, Uncle Jacob. Pll show you your room myself,’ said Albert Marlowe. ‘¢T ain’t used to such luxury, Albert,’’ said the old man, as he gazed around the comfort- ably appointed apartment. ‘‘ You ought to see my cabin at Murphy’s diggings. I reckon your servant would turn up her nose at it.” ‘*[T Know you don’t care much for style in California, uncle.’’ ‘No, we don’t, though we’ve got as hand- some houses in ’Frisco as anywhere else. Why, Albert, this room is fine enough for a prince.” ‘Then you can think yourself a prince,’® said the squire, genially. ‘* Now, if you want to wash your face and hands, and arrange your toilet, you will have abundant time before dinner. Come down when you have finished.”’ Albert Marlowe returned to his wife. ‘*Mr. Marlowe,”’ said she, ‘‘are you very sure that old man is rich?” ‘¢T have no doubt of it, Julia.”’ | “But what an old fright he is! Why, he GOMIG JOO <Si