The $500 Check — page 282: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“BERT OBTAINS AN IMPORTANT CLEW. 2635 day he gave his promise that he would go with the company when they left Harrisburg, but would not sign an engagement for any definite _. time, as he did not wish to put any obstacle in the way of his following any clew that might lead to the discovery of Harding. “Well, Mr. Barton,’’ said Mrs. Stubbs “fier supper, ‘‘did you find anything of value in that box .of papers ?’’ ‘* Yes ; I obtained some information that will probably be of value. Besides it gave me a clew to his present residence.’’ ‘*Indeed,’’ said Angelica, who was sale ** where is he?’’ ‘In Peoria, Illinois. He has a married sis- ter living there.’’ ‘* Shall you go out. West to find him ?”’ ‘‘T expect to go with the company. They will play an engagement in Peoria.” ‘‘If you see Mr. Harding, please remember me to him. Say—that is, you may hint that I still think of him with interest, and—and hope he will some day return to us.”’ ‘That message ought to bring him, Miss Angelica,”’ Gomicboo CS (E(@) m