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14 THE $500 CHEOK. us? I shall really give up if I have got to have such a looking old tramp as a permanent mem- ber of the family.’ ‘* But, Julia, if he is reatly very rich, it is important for us to Keep him strictly in view. You know there will be plenty of designing persons, who will be laying snares to entrap him, and get possession of his money.”’ ‘‘Howold ishe? Is he likely to live long ?”’ ‘*T think he must be about sixty-five.”’ ‘‘And he looks alarmingly healthy,’’ said Mrs. Marlowe, with a sigh. ‘‘ His father died at sixty-seven.”’ Mrs. Marlowe brightened up. ‘‘ That is en- couraging,’’ she said, hopefully. ‘‘T don’t think he looks so very healthy,” added the squire. ‘¢ He has a good color.” ‘‘His father was the picture of health till within a few weeks of his death.”’ ‘¢'What did he die of ?”’ ‘* Apoplexy.”’ “To be sure. The old man looks as if he might go off that way.” | ‘‘In that case we should only need to be Gomichooks (E(@) m