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or : PN a SUAALAASS 9 LAURA BRAYTON. CHAPTER I. ENOCH SHARP. “Why do you want me to marry the girl? she has no liking for me, nor I for her, or any other of her sex. Women aren’t in my line of business. Why should I marry her2” “Because it is my will—the will of Enoch Sharp, and you, Jake Bartram, dare not disobey it!” The first speaker was a tall, stoutly-built man, with a rough, unprepossessing face, a man not yet thirty years of age, but with a hardened, crime- worn look. : The second was rather under-sized, lame, and with one of those keen, malicious faces, which indicate ¢ character naturally devilish, if one may use the term. The'first was standing, the second sat by a table €O » Ecomicbooks