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LAURA BRAYTON. 161 troubling anybody to let him in. “You know that chap that went out o’ sight here all of a sudden last night—him that is after the gal?” “Yes! What of him?” “Why, I saw him only.a little while ago, riding in a carriage with that big bug, Lawyer Johnson.” “You are sure?” \ “1m not drunk, and I’m awake, aren’t I?” “You look so.” “Then I saw him, just as sure as I see you and Jake Bartram.” “How could he have disappeared? You say he could not have passed you with the girl last night?” “No, not without he went out like air.” “Tl am utterly astounded. It is like magic, I know not how to turn or what to meet. I believe Iam bewitched—that we are all bewitched. I will give a thousand dollars to see him killed; I care not how, to see if he is or is not invulnerable, and a thousand more to get that girl in my power!” “Good! That is the way to talk. Bid high and you’ll be sure to get work done. Don’t say die till you’re cold, boss. Bad luck takes a turn when it looks the worst. I’m your man till you’re ahead of ’emall. You’ve been good pay and I like you.” “T ought not to have left that villain, Nathan Sloth, off last night,” said the lawyer, thoughtfully. “He is a traitor, and as such should have been punished. But the rascal is now free, for he will never return here to place himself in my power.” “What if he don’t? He doesn’t know enough to get out of your reach or that of your agents. There is but one place where a man can get beyond my reach when I’m set on getting him.” “And that?” (ef 0) Gomicbooks