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Chapter 7 UNCLE JACOB LEAVES LAKEVILLE.

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iving last evenin

wered Bert

oughton's

es

did you ha

cle Jacob pai

two dollars for a ride. W

ercy. As to being a pauper, I do

five hundred dollars. How long do you think that's going t

and, as I said, tha

en he has spent all his money he'll

to whom it was disagreeable to hear

es his bed he must lie on it. And I say, Bert Barton, it isn't very cre

torted Bert, with spirit. "If ever Uncle Jacob does co

poverty itself!" exclaimed

ortly, provoked, but not car

e Uncle Jacob an account of

d man

I make my bed I must l

n't be troubled at that. You

w moist, and he regard

rue friend, Bert," he said,

Uncle Jacob. It does seem extravaga

t grudge the old man a little enjoyment in his

here?" asked

that has been put on the New York market, will give me a clerkship and a

oyfully. "I was afraid you wouldn't find anything to

bility. If I am sixty-five, I am able to earn a livi

dollars a week I should

you are onl

st si

sixteen, a boy can hardly expect to earn as much as twelv

ollars

sual price for boys

more. The squire pay

n't the men

is better to work cheaper here t

l be earning twelve dollars a week like your rich old uncle. If the of

t was, Un

igar store in Lakeville," remarked Unc

claimed: "Uncle Jacob has secured a clerks

" said Mrs. Barton

nk, like Bert here, that I w

nxious for you, Un

t your fears

work very hard?"

yer is an int

you comme

that I must leave

le Jacob, I hope you won't take it amiss if I urge you not to be too free with your mon

are afraid I will be driving f

generous with your money, and gi

rom that, I am going to turn mis

there is much d

try. However, as I shall be acting according

ean to follow my a

e. Some time-I can't promise how soon-I shall invite you and Bert to come and spend the day

n Squire Marlowe; not at the ho

d you good-by, A

ck to California?

going to

sive living

ined a situa

s different. What s

clerk in a m

y will y

dollars

you. You ought to live on t

at Mary Ba

ce. It will be a great deal better tha

subject," returned Uncle Jacob in a deferenti

your good," said the Squire pompously. "As an experienced

quite so! Is your w

rlowe riding out the day befo

Squire Marlowe guardedly. "I am sorry I cannot invite

able to do so, as

od-by for you, and that

ft him. "I was afraid the old man would squander all his money, and then come

As he quitted the house, he put a se

t communicate with me," he said, "open

ob. I will put it

y, Mary, and

lace in the shoe shop. Their united earnings enabled them to live comfortably, and they were conte

s will be disclosed

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Contents

Chapter 1 A NEW ARRIVAL IN LAKEVILLE. Chapter 2 UNCLE JACOB'S RECEPTION. Chapter 3 A VISIT TO THE FACTORY. Chapter 4 UNCLE JACOB'S STARTLING REVELATION. Chapter 5 UNCLE JACOB RECEIVES HIS WALKING PAPERS. Chapter 6 SQUIRE MARLOWE IS SURPRISED. Chapter 7 UNCLE JACOB LEAVES LAKEVILLE. Chapter 8 DISCHARGED. Chapter 9 MRS. BARTON'S SECRET. Chapter 10 STOLEN MONEY. Chapter 11 THE TWENTY-DOLLAR BILL.
Chapter 12 MR. JONES IS EXCITED.
Chapter 13 PERCY GETS RID OF THE BILL.
Chapter 14 BERT STANDS TRIAL.
Chapter 15 BERT'S TRIUMPHANT VINDICATION.
Chapter 16 WHAT BECAME OF THE STOLEN NOTE.
Chapter 17 AFTER THE TRIAL.
Chapter 18 BERT OBTAINS WORK.
Chapter 19 BERT'S EXPERIENCE AS A FARMER'S BOY.
Chapter 20 BERT IS PLACED IN AN EMBARRASSING POSITION.
Chapter 21 THE MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE PANTRY.
Chapter 22 A PANIC AT FARMER WILSON'S.
Chapter 23 BERT FORMS A RESOLUTION.
Chapter 24 THE OFFICE OF THE MAGNET MINE.
Chapter 25 AN ADVERTISEMENT AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
Chapter 26 BERT SECURES BOARD IN HARRISBURG.
Chapter 27 A BOARDING-HOUSE IN HARRISBURG.
Chapter 28 BERT'S FIRST APPEARANCE ON ANY STAGE.
Chapter 29 BERT SECURES A BOX OF MR. HARDING'S PAPERS.
Chapter 30 BERT OBTAINS AN IMPORTANT CLEW.
Chapter 31 SQUIRE MARLOWE IS SURPRISED. 31
Chapter 32 HIRAM FRENCH, OF CHICAGO.
Chapter 33 A LATE ARRIVAL AT MRS. BARTON'S COTTAGE.
Chapter 34 BERT INTERVIEWS HARDING'S SISTER.
Chapter 35 SUCCESS COMES STRANGELY.
Chapter 36 RALPH HARDING IS FOUND.
Chapter 37 ALBERT MARLOWE MEETS HIS VICTIM.
Chapter 38 MR. BARTON DEFIES THE SQUIRE.
Chapter 39 CONCLUSION.
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