Laura Brayton — page 118: what you’re looking at

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LAURA BRAYTON, 109 CHAPTER XXI. DISCUSSING PROSPECTS. Three weeks of hope; three weeks of that pleas- ant excitement which hope brings with it. What a_ wonderful change it will make in some persons. One would hardly recognize Mr. Withers, as he received Lawyer Johnson and friend in his front parlor, on a second visit. He looked younger by years. His face had color, his eye had fire, his step, as he advanced to shake hands, was elastic and vigorous. “T am glad, very glad to see you, Mr. Johnson, and you, too, Captain Hawk, and I say once more, ‘Heaven bless you,’ for you are acting like a man now and blotting out all the past. But when— when am I to see the dear ones?” “Not yet, Mr. Withers—not quite yet, for we wish to keep them out of sight until we spring our trap. Our enemy is powerful yet, wary, remorseless, and cruel, and no life will stand between him and his aims if it can be reached by gold or by cunning, Our safety and our success in the main object—re- covering all the property he has gorged—require care and secrecy yet. We know you will be patient, when success is sure at last to crown our efforts.” “Yes, yes, this has been a wonderful affair. Providence has been in it all. You, Captain Hawk, were prevented by Providence from becoming a cruel murderer, when you really phone ht you were one,” (eo) comicbooks . we > =»