Putnam and his officers and the other gentlemen of the committee of Congress seized the hands of the two young officers in hearty congratulation.
"But there is something still more to tell," cried Mr.Morris; "your ship, her battered and dismantled condition, the rents in the sails--you were chased ?" "Yes, sir," replied Seymour, "and nearly recaptured.

We escaped, however, through a narrow channel extending across George's Shoal off Cape Cod, with which I was familiar; and the English ship, pursuing recklessly, ran upon the shoal in a gale of wind and was wrecked, lost with all on board." "Is it possible, sir, is it possible?
Did you find out the name of the ship ?" "Yes, sir; one of our seamen who had served aboard her recognized her.
She was the Radnor, thirty-six guns." "That's the ship that Lord Dunmore is reported to have returned to Europe in," said Mr.Clymer, another member of the committee.

A shudder passed over the two young men at this confirmation of their misfortunes.

Seymour continued with great gravity,-- "We have reason to believe that some one else in whom you have deeper interest than in Lord Dunmore was on board of her,--Colonel Wilton, one of our commissioners to France, and his daughter also.

They must have perished with the rest." There was a moment of silence, as the full extent of this calamity was made known to the multitude, and then a clergyman was seen pushing his way nearer to them.
"What! Mr.Seymour! How do you do, sir?
Did I understand you to say that all the company of that English ship perished ?" "Yes, Dr.White." "And Colonel Wilton and his daughter also ?" "Alas, yes, sir." "I fear that it is as our young friend says," added Robert Morris, gloomily.