The $500 Check — page 251: what you’re looking at

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232 THE $500 CHECK. ‘¢Then I am sure she will let you have them. They are worth nothing toher. Ionly wonder she hasn’t used them to kindle the fire with _ before now.”’ ‘‘T hope she hasn’t,’? returned Bert anx- iously. | ‘*No; I know she hasn’t, for I saw them in the attic only last week. Ill look them up for you some day when I am at leisure.”’ “Thank you.”’ ‘*T wonder Mr. Harding hasn’t written to you,”’ he said, a little later. ‘¢Oh, go along! You don’t suppose there was anything between me and him ?”’ said Angel- ica, who liked nothing better than to be teased about the attentions of members of the other sex. Bert was sharp enough to see this, and thought he might make it available in promot- ing the object he had in view. ‘‘T thought, perhaps, he had gone away be- cause you didn’t smile upon his suit.” Miss Angelica laughed and tossed her head in great delight. : ‘‘ Asif I would tell you,”’ she said. ‘*T only hope he hasn’t committed suicide.’’ Gom C JOO ESS ' @ )