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30 : LAURA BRAYTON. CHAPTER V. “THE MONSTER WILL SOON BE AT BAY.” Not quite so old as he, very pale, in features, very handsome, dignified, and decidedly aristocratic, the lady who met the man who had “pyumped out” Jake Bartram at the porter-house near the Basin, did not seem in any way connected with him. She met him in the private parlor of an unpretending, but very home-like and comfortable hotel on West Baltimore street, shortly after he had gained all he could from Bartram and left him in his drunken sleep. “Well, captain, have you news for me?” she asked of the man with the red scar on his cheek. “A good deal, madam. We have got the old scoundrel in a corner.” “Did you see her?” asked the lady, anxiously, not deeming it necessary toname to him the one she meant. -“No, madam, but I saw one who had seen her not an hour before I saw him, who declared her well and prettier than an angel. He was not disinter- ested in his praises, for he was the individual whom this wretch Sharp has picked out for a husband for her.” | “Consulting her wishes?” Gomicbooks.¢co