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92 LAURA BRAYTON, CHAPTER XVII. “Tl HAVE CAUSED YOU MUCH SORROW.” The interview between the man with the red scar and the celebrated lawyer, whom Enoch Sharp’s clerk had named as Mr. Johnson, must have been one of considerable importance, for after an hour or more the lawyer took his visitor into his house by a rear entrance from his office, and ordering his car- riage to the door, soon after left in it with his visitor, telling his coachman to take him to the villa of Mr. Walter Withers in the suburbs of the city. To get into the merits of the story and gather up its mysteries, the reader must also visit Mr. Withers, who once before, and once pony, has been met with in our story. | Mr. Withers received his visitors in an invalid- chair, for he felt languid and miserable that day, felt, as he had expressed himself to Sharp when he called on him about making his will, as if his stay on earth was not to be a prolonged one. “How .are you, Mr. Johnson? Glad to see you looking well, though my time here below is about up. Care and trouble have nearly finished me, and I will soon be free from them. Sit down, sir, you and your friend, and excuse my rising.” “Certainly, Mr. Withers,” said the lawyer, who though past middle age, was yet brisk and lively in looks and manner. “But you, my dear sir, must comicbooks.com —