The $500 Check — page 44: what you’re looking at

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UNCLE JACOB'S STARTLING REVELATION 381 **T shouldn’t think they would judge that from your appearance.”’ ‘*Oh, they think I am eccentric and pidiin's in my tastes, and that I’ve got my pile safe some- where.’’ ‘*T wish you had, Uncle Jacob.’’ ‘* Happiness doesn’t depend on money, Mary, as you realize in your own case. I am an old man, to be sure, but I am well and strong, and able to work for a living.’’ ‘But at your age, Uncle Jacob, it would be comfortable to feel that you could rest.’’ ‘*Come, Mary, don’t make me out a patri- arch. [Tm only sixty-five, and I can tackle a pretty good day’s work yet.”’ ‘You might be sick, Uncle Jacob.’’ ‘“Don’t let us imagine unpleasant things, Mary. I don’t mean to be sick.”’ | ‘‘And at any rate you can come and stay with us. You will always find a home here, though an humble one.’’ ‘Do you really mean that, Mary?’’ said Uncle Jacob, earnestly. ‘‘ Would you really be willing to take in the old man, and provide for his comforts ?”’ Gomichboo <S) (E(@)