The $500 Check — page 297: what you’re looking at

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278 THE $500 CHECK. part, I am not sure that I should succeed in others.”’ Bert was about leaving the theatre that night when the call boy brought him a card. ‘* There is a gentleman at the door would like to see you,’’ he said. Bert glanced at the card, and found that it bore the name of HirRAM F'RENCH. It was a name he had never before heard, and when he reached the door he looked in- © quiringly at the middle-aged gentleman who stood before him. ‘* You are young Barton?’’ said the visitor. ‘* Yes; that is my name.”’ ‘*Are you the son of John Barton, who once worked in the shoe factory of Weeks Brothers ?”’ ‘* Yes, sir,’’ answered Bert, coloring, for he knew that the stranger must be aware that his father was resting under a criminal charge. : **T thought I could not be mistaken. You look as your father did at your age.”’ ‘Then you knew my father as a boy?” said Bert eagerly. Gomichoo “S