The $500 Check — page 302: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXXITI. A LATE ARRIVAL AT MRS. BABTON’S COTTAGE. NE evening, about eight o’clock, Mrs. Bar- ton was sewing in her little sitting-room when an unusual feeling of loneliness over- came her. Circumstances had separated her from her husband, and her only son was hun- dreds of miles away. “Why,’’ she asked herself, ‘‘ can I not fare as well as other wives and mothers? [am a wife, yet I cannot enjoy my husband’s society. Fortunately Iam not likely long to be sepa- rated from Bert. If he only succeeds in his mission, and comes home able to vindicate the fame of his father and restore him to me, lI shall be perfectly happy.”’ | She felt unusually restless, and found it dif- ficult to keep on with her work. ‘‘T feel as if something were going to hap- pen. I hope no misfortune is impending over me,” aA GOMIG JOO cS (E(@)