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Flint was on duty with a couple of young officers, and gave the orders to make her fast to the Vernon. Captain Battleton was going up the side of the flag-ship, followed by Corny. Christy put his valise in a convenient place, and then concealed himself in the firemen's quarters under the top-gallant forecastle.
Graines," added Christy, as he led the way to the summit of the elevation. "Now lay aside your grammar and rhetoric, and we must be as good fellows as those bivouackers are making themselves. We are simply sailors who have just escaped from a captured blockade-runner." "I don't see anything around the fire that looks like muskets," said the engineer, as they descended from the elevation.
On the second day they had a mild gale, and the schooners were cast off, and towed astern, one behind the other. Then the weather was fine again, though the sea was still too rough for the Havana and the Aleppo to tow the prizes alongside. Christy observed the drill a great deal of the time, and Bertha Pembroke was often his companion.
"You will be in deep water in five minutes." On this report Christy rang four bells, and the Reindeer went ahead at full speed. "By the mark three!" called the man at the lead. The water was deepening rapidly, and presently the report of three and a half fathoms came from the forecastle.
Christy walked up the street, and then down the street; but the underbrush had recently been cut in the grove, and he did not venture to explore it without any protection for his feet.
"Of course, I rejoice that it is so, but I am sincerely sorry that you are wounded," replied Christy. "I must thank you for your interference in behalf of my sister in opposition to the scheme of Major Pierson." "How could you know anything about that?" asked the commander, bracing himself up. "I heard the whole of it."
"It may be, for aught I know," replied the prisoner with something like a yawn. "Whatever she is, the Snapper can run away from her, and you need not flatter yourself that there is any chance for you to escape from a Confederate prison; and when they get you into it, they will hold on very tight." "I must take things as they come," added Christy.
Gilfleur; I regard you as a non-combatant, and I think you had better remain in your stateroom," replied Christy. "But I must go on deck." The Frenchman followed him to the quarter-deck, and seemed to be inclined to take a hand in the conflict. He desired to be an American citizen, and possibly he believed he could win his title to this distinction in a battle better than by any other means.
They passed up Broadway, and Colonel Passford was silent as he witnessed the marvellous activity of the city in the midst of a great war. "I think you will not be able to find any grass growing in the streets of New York, Uncle Homer," said Christy, as they passed the Park, where the crowd seemed to be greater than elsewhere.
"Of course I must meet my uncle," said Christy. "I am not inclined to skulk and keep out of sight rather than meet him. Though I have assisted in doing him and his cause a great deal of mischief, I have done it in the service of my country; and I have no excuses to offer, and no apologies to make."
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