The $500 Check — page 54: what you’re looking at

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‘UNCLE JACOB’S WALKING PAPERS. 39 ‘You look pretty healthy. Besides, you’ll have part of your five hundred dollars left, you know.” ‘‘That’s so! What a gocd calculator you are, Albert! Besides, if things came to the worst, there’s that five hundred dollars I lent your father twenty-seven yearsago. Nodoubt you'd pay me back, and——”’ . “IT don’t know what you refer to,’’ said Squire Marlowe, coldly. ‘‘Surely you haven’t forgot the time when your father was so driven for money, when you were a lad of fifteen, and I let him have all I had except about fifty dollars that I kept for a rainy day.’’ ‘* This is news to me, Uncle Jacob,”’ said the squire, with a chilling frown. ‘‘ You must excuse me for saying that I think you labor under a delusion.’’ Uncle Jacob surveyed his neighbor intently, with a gaze which disconcerted him in spite of his assurance. ‘‘ Fortunately, I am able to prove what I _ gay,’’ he rejoined, after a slight pause. He drew from his pocket a wallet which GOmichoo <S) (E(@) im