"But she was different after that ?" "O, yes, sir." Washington Hawkins corroborated his mother's testimony as to Laura's connection with Col.Selby.

He was at Harding during the time of her living there with him.

After Col.

Selby's desertion she was almost dead, never appeared to know anything rightly for weeks.

He added that he never saw such a scoundrel as Selby.