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208 LAURA BRAYTON. This cry came from our old and tried friend, Sammy Glenn, as with his mother and Annie Walker, he hurried into the room. “'T'o witness our happiness,” said young Putnam, and then a full explanation had to be given to them. Meanwhile, with feelings of pride that he had taken so powerful a part in wiping out the dark acts of his life, Captain Hawk stood and watched the play of feeling on all those differing faces. There was another watcher, and that was Lydia Gardner. She looked upon it as a wondering maiden first witnesses the performance of some thrilling drama, hardly knowing that it was real, or that she was dreaming it. Not long was she allowed to be an inactive wit- ness. Taking her by the hand, Mr. Luke Withers said to all assembled: “Were it not for this brave young cirl, who in the mercy of Providence saved my life, I should not have known this joy. Take her to your hearts, my wife and daughter, henceforth she must be as dear to you as she is to me, and our united care prove to her and her noble father that gratitude has a reality rather than a name.” Blushing, Lydia received the embraces of the ladies, and then Laura pressed her old friend and room-mate, Annie Walker, to her bosom, and kissed the rosy, happy face of Sammy Glenn’s proud mother. [THE END. | ‘ADAM KENT’S CHOICE,” by Humpuery Ettiort, will be published in the next number (66) of THE SELECT SERIES. comicboo SS (ete)