There was no further escape for him.

But his brother officers sighed their relief when a board of surgeons declared Lieutenant Cantor to be hopelessly insane, and expressed their opinion that he had been in that unfortunate mental condition for at least some weeks.

That removed the taint of treason from the "_Long Island's_" ward-room, as an insane man is never held responsible for his wrong acts.
It was gambling to excess, and the fear of being dropped from the Navy Register, that had caused the wreck of Cantor's mind.

He is now properly confined in an asylum.
Mrs.Black had not left Vera Cruz, but still lingered on one of the refugee ships in the harbor, where the Denmans found her.
Mrs.Black was a widow who devoted her time and her wealth to missionary work in Mexico.

Dave learned to his surprise that she was the daughter of Jason Denman, and a sister of the girl whom Dave had served so signally in New York.
Mr.Denman, who was a wealthy resident of an Ohio town, had extensive mining interests in Mexico, and had gone there to look after them, leaving Miss Denman and her mother in New York.