The $500 Check — page 292: what you’re looking at

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SQUIRE MARLOWE IS SURPRISED. 273 he carried with him two pieces of news—first, that Uncle Jacob was living in luxury, and secondly, that Bert Barton was on the stage. “Tf he can act, I can,” said Percy jealously. ‘They must have been hard up for an actor when they took Bert Barton. <A boy brought up in acountry town. Never been to a theatre © in his life before. Pooh! I dare say he ap- ' peared for one night only. The idea of Mary Barton’s son acting before a regular audience, a bey who bas hoed corn for farmer Wilson !”’ GOoORMIG JOO <S) (E(0) m