Laura Brayton — page 176: what you’re looking at

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LAURA BRAYTON. 167 brain. And as you have in it read of the long, long misery caused by a spirit of revenge, of the efforts to destroy which failed only by the overruling hand of Providence, so also can you see how, by the same preserving hand of Providence, those long separated are brought together. And you will see the awak-_ ening of the fiend, who has so long gloated over his vengeance, to the fallacy of his designs, to the utter breaking up of his miserable plot. And it will bea triumph indeed. For this wretch has too long been loose to prey on humanity.” The lawyer now relapsed into silence, which was not broken until the carriage stopped in front of the residence of Mr. Walter Withers. Alighting, the two gentlemen at once passed in, and were at once admitted to the presence of the | old gentleman. He was looking even better and happier than before. “Only one day more, sir, only one day more, and | I can open my heart and arms to those for whom. you act,” said he to Mr. Johnson. “Yes, sir,” replied the lawyer. “I come with my young friend, Mr. Putnam, who is in the eyes of the law at present an entirely disinterested person, to look over all our papers together, so that he may understand his duties in the coming case.” “Ah, yes; 1am glad to see Mr. Putnam.” “Your mail, sir,” said a servant, 6ddressing Mr. Withers, and laying a package of papers and letters: on the table before which he was standing. The old gentleman bowed his head and elanced carelessly at the letters, saying: “T will see to them by and by.” But there was one with a foreign postma rk, which ~ attracted his attention. The writing of the super- comicbooks.co