Laura Brayton — page 94: what you’re looking at

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LAURA BRAYTON. : 85 murmured. “Iam to be the companion of a pure, good girl, whose only fault is that she has to work fora living. A fault? Eldridge must be speaking sarcastically in that.~ For labor is ennobling rather than faulty. There are no diamonds so bright as the drops which steal out upon the warm brow of honest industry. He bids me leave here secretly, and to be careful to leave no trace by which I can be followed. Even he, for a little while, will avoid seeing me, for fear that that fiend, Enoch Sharp, will have him watched to discover me. He has learned that Sharp holds the guardian papers which give him legal control over me. The wretch has always said so, and now Eldridge finds that they are registered. But he waits my answering signal. If I will go, 1 am to reply, and drop my answer now.” Quickly she took a pencil from her pocket and wrote: “Yes; have them ready to receive me. [I will leave this house before the-day dawns, and go in- stantly to the place you have arranged for. “LAURA. These words on the back of his own letter were - lowered to Eldridge Putnam, and in a few seconds they were in his hands. | Then whistling the notes of a march he pastenal away, lest some watchful eye should note his loung- ing about the vicinity, and report in a quarter not then desirable for many reasons. And now Laura began to arrange for flight. Selecting only such garments as were most neces- gary, she made them up in a bundle as small as pos- sible, so that it could be carried without attracting a ° €. / “ - _— > - - ; be W Dry >. > . os in, ad rand ~—< “J ey “ * - - wg “~ » — comicbooks.com —