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She is small and cramped, but she carries thirty-eight guns, and I'll make her do something one of these days." Ronald at once accepted Lord Claymore's offer. They shortly after fell in with Glover. Lord Claymore told him that he should apply for him as his junior lieutenant.

There was one very suspicious circumstance against the worthy Tacon. A few days before Ronald had been with the captain in his cabin discussing a very important matter. It was no less than Lord Claymore's long-projected plan of destroying the French fleet whenever it could be found collected in one of these exposed roadsteads.

Toward the end of June, as Claymore's new provisional brigade of Sykes's division, Fitz John Porter's superb corps d'armee, neared the designated rendezvous, some particularly dirty veteran regiments, bivouacked along the fields, crowded to the roadside, fairly writhing in their scorn and derision. "Fresh fish! Oh h! Fresh fi sh!" they shouted. "My God, boys, just see them pretty red pants!

Glover and his two constant followers joined in a few days, and the "Scorpion" was rapidly got ready for sea. Two explosion vessels were, in the meantime, being prepared under Lord Claymore's directions, and ten or a dozen fire-ships. The first were terrific engines of destruction. Ronald accompanied him on board one of them.

"Well done, Morton, those craft are performing their duty admirably!" he shouted. "It is time, however, to be out of this; we can do no more at present, I fear." Morton's own boats and others had joined with Lord Claymore's. There was no difficulty now in seeing their way; the fire-ships gave them light enough.

"I'm writing this squatted under my 'tente d'abri. General McClellan, with a preposterous staff the size of a small brigade, has just passed at a terrific gallop a handsome, mild-eyed man who has made us into an army, and who ornaments headquarters with an entire squadron of Claymore's 20th Dragoons and one of our own 8th Lancers.

The old pirate then gave the information that the English had resolved to attempt the destruction of the French fleet by fire-ships; and, as a proof, exhibited the plan which he had abstracted from Lord Claymore's cabin. "I will consider the information you have brought me, and judge of the probability of its correctness," answered the admiral.