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"The United States steamer Bronx, under sealed orders. What steamer is that?" "The United States steamer Bellevite. We will send a boat to you," returned Mr. Blowitt. The big steamer, as she certainly was compared with the Bronx, started her screw again, and came within less than half a cable's length of the little gunboat, for the water was very still, with a gentle breeze from the westward.
"I know the port very well, and I have no idea where the mouth of the lagoon is, or even if it has any mouth in Pensacola Bay." "Wherever the Teaser may be waiting her chance, this is a good night for a start," replied Mr. Dashington. "Of course the officers of Fort Pickens are on the lookout for the saucy little craft," added Mr. Blowitt.
Passford," said Captain Blowitt, as soon as he was able to speak, for his risibles seemed to have obtained complete control of him. "I have brought it all off with me, captain," replied Christy, though he had not yet got at the point of the joke, and spoke at a venture. "What, the whole State of Florida!" exclaimed the commander.
He could not imagine what business Lonley could have with Gilder or his representative; and if he had any, why it should be necessary to meet him on the island. "Of course you don't expect me to carry on the programme that fellow has marked out," said Mr. Blowitt. "I don't quite like the looks of the things that we can't see, Mr. Passford." "Neither do I, Mr.
"I beg you will not consider that I am asking for the command of the Teaser, Captain Breaker, if she is sent upon this duty," returned the lieutenant, somewhat set back at the prudence of the commander. "I think I had better send Mr. Blowitt in command of the Teaser, and you shall go as his first officer," added the captain.
I beg your pardon, Captain Blowitt, and I will never again remind you of the conversation we had on the subject of audacity," answered Christy, rising from his chair and taking the commander by the hand. "It is all right, Christy, my dear fellow," replied the captain, coming down from the dignified manner of the navy.
Blowitt was summoned from his stateroom, and forty men, including all who had taken part in the capture of the prize, were detailed to man the Teaser. The second lieutenant was one of the jolliest men on board, but he weighed nearly two hundred pounds, and he was not as active on this account in boat service as some others.
"I shall do everything I can to carry out your plan, as I am instructed to do by the captain; but I have the feeling, in spite of myself, that we are crawling into a hornet's nest," added Mr. Blowitt, with some anxiety in his tones. "You will call all hands quietly, and be ready to repel boarders. It is well to be prepared for whatever may come.
Vapoor," said the captain. "We shall have no trouble in making twenty-two knots, sir, with the sea as it is now," replied the engineer. "That steamer means to go into the Cape Fear River," said Mr. Blowitt, when the chase had laid her course. "If she was going in at Savannah, or round into the Gulf, she would go more to the south."
Blowitt charged the young officer in the most serious manner not to run any risks, and the boat was shoved off. It required but a few strokes of the oars to bring it into shoal water by the beach. Only a single man could be seen on the shore, and this one must be Lonley. There seemed to be no risk, and Christy landed.
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