The $500 Check — page 279: what you’re looking at

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260 THE $500 CHECK. indeed you ought not to expect it, as you area single man, and have no one to take care of but yourself. I am afraid you are not a very good manager. Come to Peoria, and I will see if I can’t help you save money. Consider what a position you would be in if you should fall sick. Your affectionate sister, HELEN CLIFTON. . Underneath, in Ralph Harding’s handwrit- ing, was this brief indorsement : All true, every word of it! Helen was always pru- dent and a good manager. It is true, as she says, that there are but two of us. Why shouldn’t I go to Peoria, and see her ? There was no more; but as Ralph Harding a week later left Harrisburg, it seemed fair to infer that he had adopted his own halt-ex- pressed intention, and gone to Peoria, to see his sister, especially as there seemed a good chance of his obtaining work there in his own line. ‘‘Peoria!’’ repeated Bert thoughtfully. ‘The chances are that Ralph Harding went there from Harrisburg, and it 1s very probable EGomichooks (E(@)