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One of the officers and about half of the men were sent off yesterday," replied Dolly, who seemed willing to tell all he knew. "Why did the men run off?" asked Christy curiously. "They brought about fifty hands, all slaves, down here to load the steamer and the schooners. They set them at work yesterday morning, and they had nearly put all the cotton into the schooners at dinner time.
"I should as soon think of getting out if we were buried a hundred feet under ground as to think of getting out of this place," replied Flint, who was hardly as enterprising as his officer, though he was always ready to follow when he was well led. "There is a guard at the door, Mr. Passford." "He may stay there; we don't want anything of him," replied Christy.
"And mine is Edward Sangston; and I shipped as second officer of the steamer." "We shipped only for the voyage, and were told that we could not retain our situations after the ship's company was fully organized," added Mr. Lippard. "Then I hope you were paid in advance, as the engineers were," said Christy with a smile. "We were, sir, thank you," added the first officer.
"I say I am abused, and dragged from below like a dog." "If you stand up and walk like a man, the dog will not be dragged." "Boat alongside, sir," reported a quartermaster. "Put him into the boat," added Christy. The prisoner was certainly a hideous-looking object, his face daubed with blood, and his nose a mass of tangled flesh; but he was put into the boat in spite of his struggles.
"I see you have," replied the captain, grasping him by the hand. "I have been terribly worried about you, Christy." "I am all right, sir; and so is Mr. Flint, who was with me. We have brought off a schooner of two hundred tons, loaded with cotton," continued Christy, as modestly as the circumstances would permit. "I am very anxious to hear your report, Mr. Passford," said the commander.
That sounds like Massa Christy's voice; but I done seen him on deck five or ten minutes ago." "No, you didn't, Dave; that was Corny," replied Christy. "Gollywops! But he was in command of the Bronx, for I done seen Mr. Flint hand it over to him. Go 'way! You can't fool this colored person." "I tell you the truth, Dave; but things are mixed," added Christy.
He had removed thither from the south, where the name is indigenous; being indeed a descendant of that Christy, whom his father, Johnie Armstrong, standing with the rope about his neck, ready to be hanged or murdered, as the ballad calls it apostrophizes in these words: 'And God be with thee, Christy, my son, Where thou sits on thy nurse's knee!
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.
"Help the young cub on board," said the captain, as he went up the accommodation ladder, followed by Percy. With his wrists fettered with a pair of handcuffs, Christy needed assistance to mount the vessel's side. He was handled with more consideration than he expected, and reached the deck without any injury.
Linscott was very earnest in insisting upon his point; and the commander yielded, for he could hardly do otherwise in the face of the surgeon's recommendation, for the latter was the responsible person. The next morning, after the wounded officer had passed a feverish night, Captain Breaker visited him in his stateroom, and announced the decision. Christy began to fight against it.
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