Octavia's Pride; or, The Missing Witness — page 277: what you’re looking at

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OCTAVZA’S PRIDE. 267 ‘* Captain Leyard, I am so glad to see you. Come this way and see my friends—I have told them so much about you.” _ Captain Lo opened his eyes and stared in amazement. ““7] beg your pardon, madam. I really ought not to for- get such a face as that, but—but——” ‘Oh, Captain Lo, have you forgotten poor Will Yarrel?” ‘*Holy sailor! Will Yarrel, the poor little fellow! What - can you tell me about him?” ‘Come this way and my husband will give you the latest intelligence;” and the beautiful Mrs. Wainwright (for Maurice had taken the old name) retreated, laughing and blushing to her husband’s side. Great was Captain Lo’s amazement, which was deepened to keen delight, when Mrs. Middleton came forward and begged his pardon for the deception practiced upon him. “‘ Well, well,” he cried again and again. ‘‘So here’s the end of the great mystery that has puzzled me so often to look back upon. Who would have thought it?” «< And the end likewise,” added Felix in a tender whisper, stealing a gentle clasp upon the firm, white coh of his handsome wife, ‘‘of Octavia’s Pride.” [THE END. | <S €oO comicboo