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LAURA BRAYTON. } 206 CHAPTER XLIITI, REUNITED. The day was just dawning when a carriage drew up before the door of the old Withers mansion, con- taining Mr. Walter Withers and Lawyer Johnson, both of whom had been prepared to a certain degree for an interview with the trio who now sat with Captain Hawk in the back parlor of the old house. As soon as they had alighted the carriage was again sent away by Eldridge Putnam, with direc- tions given in an undertone. To describe the meeting of the brothers, their ex- travagant joy when both had feared that their first _ meeting would be on the far rather than the hither — side of the grave, would be to intrude upon that which can better be imagined than explained. The wonder that for solong poor Laura Brayton had been so near an uncle whose power in wealth and influence would have raised her from persecution without a struggle, the surprise that for so long Enoch Sharp could have concealed his infamous plans, and that in the end Providence had, with its unerring hand, avenged and punished the wrongs and the wrong-doer, all constituted combinations apparently more fanciful than real, yet they were the scenes of real life. | The story was this: The lawyer, maddened by ~ the loss of Annie Lonsdale, on whom he had set all . that he had of heart, had determined to work out a Eomicbooks:com