The $500 Check — page 40: what you’re looking at

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UNCLE JACOB'S STARTLING REVELATION. 27 Meanwhile Bert had been bringing in wood and doing chores for his mother. ‘Did Uncle Jacob tell you how long he in- tended to stay in Lakeville ?’’ ‘“No, mother; I only had a short time to talk with him when Percy rode by, and then he started to call on the squire. Do you know, mother, I am rather surprised that he should have been so well received, poor as he looks.’ ‘**I think better of Albert for it. It shows that he is not so worldly as I feared. Cer- tainly Uncle Jacob ought to be well received by Albert Marlowe, for when Albert’s father was in trouble Jacob lent him five hundred dollars—all the money he had—and I feel sure the money has not been repaid to him to this day.”’ ‘‘T don’t think Percy will be very cordial. You know what high notions he has.’’ ‘* He gets them principally from his mother, who is extremely aristocratic in her ideas.”’ ‘*Was she of a high family ?”’ Mrs. Barton smiled. ‘‘Her father was a fisherman,” she replied, GoOmichoo Ss (E() m