The $500 Check — page 271: what you’re looking at

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252 THE $500 CHEOK. been intimate with Harding. Bert learned that he was looked upon as ‘‘ a rolling stone,’’ never content to remain long in one place. He had been employed less than six months at the Benedict shop, when, without assigning any reason, he gave notice that he wanted to leave. | ‘‘ What sort of aman is he?” asked Bert. ‘‘He is restless and at times gloomy,”’ an- swered Blanchard, to whom he had put the question. ‘‘I worked next to him, but he seldom made any conversation with me.”’ ‘¢Was hea good workman ?”’ ‘Excellent, but he evidently did not like the business. He often lamented that he had not the means of getting out of it.” ‘‘Have you any idea where he went when he left Harrisburg ?’’ ‘From what I have heard him say, I think it probable that he went to some Western town Or Gliiyey ‘You have not heard from him since he left Harrisburg ?”’ ‘No; he was not likely to correspond with me. I doubt if he was intimate enough with (E(0) Al C JOO cS