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136 LAURA BRAYTON. - “T’d like to find where my friend and his gal has gone to, too!” said Sammy Glenn. “And IT’ll tell you what it is, old chap, if I-don’t find out soon VU raise a crowd that’ll not leave one brick’ atop of another in your old crib.” “ And, sare, permit me to observe zat if I find not my friend very soon safe, I shall ’ave ze pleasure of perform one operation on you wiz my rapier, my small sword !” | : “T have no time to quarrel with you now,” said Sharp, then turning to the policemen and to Joe, he said: “Let everybody leave that wants to leave peace- fully. Iam foiled, but I am not conquered.” And he went out into the outer office, or library. With evident reluctance, for he and Kis men were . hungry for a fight, Joe and his party cleared the way to the door by vanishing as they came, and then all but Jake Bartram left the room. He had sunk stupidly down on his chair again and was now in a drunken stupor. insensible to everything that had happened, or might occur. comicbooks a A ~~ > , bd i (ve