Laura Brayton — page 109: what you’re looking at

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100 LAURA BRAYTON. And he arose to leave. Just as he went out a young man entered whom Enoch Sharp had seen at court with Lawyer Johnson, and whom he knew to be a clerk in his office. He held a paper in his hand which he extended, with the remark: “T have been ordered to serve this notice on you, Mr. Sharp.” | “Well, what does all this mean?” exclaimed the lawyer, angrily, as he read the precept. “Who are the parties who bring this suit? I want some name, or names, besides this general term, ‘the heirs’— that will never stand. Tell Johnson I say so. I. will not respond to any paper like that. I will not, I say!” The clerk turned to leave, remarking, quietly: “Thave served the notice; your future action is not for me to discuss.” - Alone, the lawyer looked again and again over the paper that he had just received. And the more he looked and pondered, the less did he seem satis- fied. -“T don’t like this,” he muttered: “Johnson is too keen to work on uncertainties. <A big retainer and a plausibly fair case only will enlist him. Ihave got work to do. Ben Hawk must be found, and when found, be taken care of. He is one of the parties in this matter, and the woman he has been seen with is another. But they are not heirs, nor in any way related. Whocan they be? For once I amin the dark. But I'll fight; I’ll fight to the last. No compromise for me. Neither Johnson nor any one else but Ben Hawk knows anything about Laura. It must be he—yet he would only criminate himself if he pretended to make her an heir. Oh, -- comicbooks > ail x et com ae a