The $500 Check — page 28: what you’re looking at

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UNCLE JACOB’S RECEPTION. 15 troubled with him a couple of years, and. for that we should he richly repaid.’’ | * They will seem like two _ eternities,”’ groaned the lady, ‘‘ and the chief burden will come on me.”’ ‘* You shall be repaid, my dear! Only treat him well ! ”’ ‘Will you give me half what money he leaves to us?”’ | ‘Say one-third, Julia. That will repay you richly for all your trouble.”’ | ‘Very well! Let it be a third. But, Mr. Marlowe, don’t let there be any mistake! I depend upon you to find out as soon as possible how much money the old man has.’’ ‘‘Trust to me, Julia. I am just as anxious to know as you are.”’ In twenty minutes Uncle Jacob came down stairs. He had done what he could to improve his appearance, or ‘‘slick himself up,’’ as he expressed it, and wore a blue coat and vest, each provided with brass buttons. But from close packing in his valise both were creased. up in such a manner that Squire Marlowe and CONNIE) CS (E(0) m