The Blue Clipper — page 69: what you’re looking at

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_ words of Watson, on this day, however, drowned every hope. She went on deck to breathe the pure sea air, for there was _ a stifling sensation in her throat. be Not long was she there, when Watson came to her side. wend She turned to leave him, when he gently laid his hand on _ her arm. _ *Thave something to say concerning Mr. Wand,” he said. - She paused and he went on, having first glanced around him to make sure there was no danger of his being heard. “Wand will be tried—condemned to death. It rests with _ you to save him.” _ *° “With me” - “¥es. Consent to be my wife, and I will use my utmost “endeavors to get him clear—ay, you must, by this time, have WS the state of my feelings toward you, and I know I can ; > Et upon you to keep secret what 1 am about to say. _ “Twill contrive that Wand shall escape from my vessel. He _ Shall conceal himself where he can not be found, and shall sub- sequently leave for some European port. The man is young, and some allowance must be made for the temptations of youth. _ He was probubly beguiled into the smuggler business by some - artful person, older than himself.” Sool said Mary, “do not try to cover your motives thus.” a. “T have no wish to. WhatIsay I mean. If you will be my wife, the youth shall go wir? he gave him a haughty glance. aan “No si sir. Wand would not buy his freedom thus. Sooner _ would he perish—sooner wound J see him perish, than suffer the ony of my being another's.” Ke oe With this she swept away and descended to her room. iz ioe, atson’s face grew black. "Phe youth shall suffer the worst,” he muttered—* ay, the ey worst !” The cutter, which, by this time, was well under way, was plowing up blue water in rapid chase of the clipper, about a league distant. ‘To windward the frigate also was rapidly overhauling her. ‘She was standing along the coast under every thing she could ~ comicbooks.com)