The $500 Check — page 273: what you’re looking at

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954 THE $500 CHECK. ‘*You don’t want to do Mr. Harding any harm; though I don’t know why I should think of that, after the way he has served me!”’ ‘‘ Instead of that, Mrs. Stubbs, I can assure you that it will be money in his pocket, if, through his papers, I am able to find him.’’ ‘‘ And in that case you will try to get him to pay his honest debts ?”’ **T will, Mrs. Stubbs.”’ ‘Then, Mr. Barton, if you will come up to the attic I will hand you the papers.”’ Bert gladly followed Mrs. Stubbs upstairs, and was shown on the attic floor a wooden box about half full of old letters and other papers. The box certainly did not look very valuable, and Bert said so. ‘“T wouldn’t have kept it,’? said the land- lady, ‘“‘if I could have got hold of his trunk. But he got the start of me, and it was in the hands of an expressman_ before I knew that ke was going to move. I was downstairs in the basement when Mr. Harding took the express- man upstairs, and the trunk was brought down and put in his wagon hefore I knew GOmIGDOoks (E(@) m