Laura Brayton — page 95: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

86 | LAURA BRAYTON. attention. A bundle of letters from Eldridge Put- nam were looked at with that tenderness which expresses more than words, and were touched with her lips before she-placed them in her bosom. Then she took up a little Bible which had been his gift, read a chapter in it, and kneeling, breathed a prayer to the Father of the fatherless for His guidance and protection. Then putting ona thin shawl, and a close hood which served materially to conceal her features, she took up her bundle and stole silently from her room. Down the old-fash- ioned stairs, out by a rear door into the back garden, and thence by a gate which she unbolted, into an alley, and unheard, unseen by any one, she believed, she was in the street. comicbooks.com —