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HOPE EXTINGUISHED. 55 “You will take me to my father?” cried Mary. “ Certainly.” He conducted her out of the cave. _ From the summit of the cliff, she could see the cutter far away, the Stars and Stripes fluttering at ber mizzen, _ \ The sight would have cheered her; but for the thought of Captain Wand, who was, she believed, now Watson's prisoner, Where—where—is HE?” she at length ventured to ask— Captain Wand ?” An exultant expression momentarily lighted her compan- _ jon's face. He turned aside to hide it, and, with. pretended gudness, answered : “ Have you not heard ?” “ No, sir—what ?” “He was shot dead, last night, while attempting to es _. Mary staggered back, halffainting, white with agony. om Watson clenched his teeth at this proof of attachment to Wand. _ “Are you sure?” she gasped; “is there not some mis- _ take?” . *T think not, although I have some questions (o ask a certain -- young woman, whe was with Lim at the time, endeavoring to help him get off, as my lieutenant informed me. That woman * could bave been none.other than the one we just left—the smuggler captain’s daughter, probably. I have put a guard : at the door of her apartment, 80 that she can not get off un- ) til I can ask the question I intend.” He then narrated the particulars of Wand’s shooting as it has already been told. : Mary's face lighted up. a There may have been some mistake. He may have only sor been wonunde.” ss * "Phat-is what I wish to find ont from: the girl.” -* Do not. Jet us put it off f cried Mary ; “ we will question her at once.” They descended into the cave and questioned Nettie. She Isoked at Miss Clare steadily, her eyes flashing strangely. © You will never see him again.” cComichooks-;com