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LAURA BRAYTON, 49 do it. But let me beg you to hurry. The sooner we get away from here the better. Until-we are settled and fully prepared for war,1Ido not wish Enoch Sharp to get in close contact with us. Rich, re- morseless, as ready for murder as he ever has been, he would never let us get into a position to assail him if in the start he could get us into his power.” “True, most true, good captain. You shall guide me now, for in you and in Him who is the truest friend to the widow BEG the orphan, alone can I trust.” : And the lady at once made her preparations for a change of quarters. In a little while these preparations were con- cluded, the baggage removed, and the apartments which had been engaged by the parties from Florida were vacant. And this change had heen effected so speedily and so quietly that when, an hour later, Nathan Sloth came to take transient board there, registering his name as Nathan Trotter, he did not know that the game he had come to watch over was beyond his reach. Knowing that it would not be his safest plan to ask questions at the start, he merely selected a room, which, by its number, he judged to be oppo- site to those occupied by the parties registering from Florida, paid his board a week in advance, took an “invigorating glass” at the bar and a seat near a window, so that he could watch the street as well as keep a lookout inside, and then he took from his pocket an old paper, in which he seemed at once to become deeply interested. For an hour he remained at his ROSH: then he arose and muttered to himself: Gomicboo cS com