The $500 Check — page 306: what you’re looking at

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

LATE ARRIVAL AT MRS. BARTON’S. 287 ** No; call me Mr. Robinson, as you did on my former visit,’’ said Mr. Barton. ‘* Now that this matter is arranged, can you take care of us both to-night?’’? asked Uncle Jacob. ‘* Yes, there is Bert’s room.”’ ‘* Then I will trespass upon your hospitality for one night.”’ ‘*Can’t you stay longer, Uncle Jacob ?”’ ‘‘No; I must get back to business. I must not run any risk of losing my situation, you know.”’ ‘*To be sure not,’’ said Mrs. Barton earn- estly. ‘‘Do you like your employer, Uncle Jacob ?’’ ‘‘T have no reason to complain of him,’’ an- swered the old man with a smile. ‘‘He lets me do about as I please.’’ ‘‘You were very lucky in getting in with him.”’ ‘‘As you say, I am in good luck. But I think I ought to get higher pay.’’ ‘‘T¢ seems to me twelve dollars a week is a very good salary,’’ said Mrs. Barton soberly. CS (E(@) m Gomichc ‘ol