Laura Brayton — page 186: what you’re looking at

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_ LAURA BRAYTON. 17 CHAPTER XXXVILI. “TT HAVE GIVEN LIFE FOR LIFE! With hungry eyes, still as a statue of beggary, Joe stood in a narrow alley for hours watching for the return of young Putnam, for he felt confident that he would return to the office of the lawyer. It was almost night when his patience was rewarded. Twice only, in all this time, had he ventured from the spot where he had ensconced himself, and then only so far as the stand of a woman who sold apples and cakes a few yards away. Hither hunger had drawn him, and with a few coppers he had bought something to still its cravings. When at last he did see his intended victim, as he sprang from the carriage in which he had returned, and which after leaving him was. driven off, he could not repress a low cry of delight, which from its singularity reached the ears of the apple woman, who had more than once noticed him standing in the alley-way, perhaps not without apprehension, for small as is the gain of such a trade, it is always enough toe tempt the cupidity of those who make of robbery a trade and a business. And after that, though not appearing to do go, she kept a constant watch upon the gaunt, ferocious- looking creature, and more than once felt an incli- nation to leave her stand before the shades of night came upon her, though she generally remained there until eight or nine o’clock at night, for her GEomicboo ‘S (ef o)