The $500 Check — page 37: what you’re looking at

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24. THE $500 CHECK, ‘Did you tell your mother I was in town ?”’ “'Yes,’? answered Bert, ‘‘and she says she hopes you wil] call.” ‘To besureI will. I maycall this evening.’ ‘*He’s a likely boy, Albert,’’ said Uncle Jacob, rejoining the squire, who stood alcof with a look of annoyance on his face. ‘SHe works very well, I believe,’’ was the cold reply. ‘‘Shall we move on?” ‘¢ Albert doesn’t seem to feel much interest in his poor relations,’’ thought Uncle Jacob. ‘¢Well, it?s human nature, I suppose.’’ ‘¢You seem to be doing a large business, Al- bert,”’ he said aloud. ‘Yes; but with a little more capital I could very much increase it,’’ rejoined the squire. ‘sWith twenty-five thousand dollars now, I would enlarge the factory to double its present size, and do twice the business I am now doing.’’ ‘‘T am afraid you want to get rich too fast, Albert.”’ ‘Tt would gratify my spirit of enterprise, Uncle Jacob. I feel that I have the ability to make a big business success.”’ Gomichoo “S