The $500 Check — page 268: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

MR. HARDING’S PAPERS. DAG ‘Yes; but when I left the house I had no idea of playing. It so happened that the young actor who usually takes the part—Bob _Hazleton—was sick, and I was applied to by the manager to take his place.”’ ‘‘'Then he Knew you were an actor ?”’ ‘*No; I only fell in with him on the train from New York.”’ ‘Why you acted just as if you were used to 2t.”’ ‘“T am glad you think so. I hardly dared to accept the part.’’ ‘Will you play the rest of the week 2”? ‘‘T have agreed to do so. Hazleton goes home to-day.”’ ‘6 How nice! I must go again.” ‘¢T take that as a compliment.”’ ‘“‘Can’t you actors take your friends in free?’’ asked Angelica, whose rule was to make all she could out of her acquaintances. ‘““T haven’t been an actor long enough to find out.”’ ‘*T should consider it such afavor. I would get all my friends to go.”’ ‘‘On the same terms?’’ asked Bert with a amile. <=) Gomichoo