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"The agreement in the articles was to run the blockade. If we got through the sound, it would take a week of constant drudgery, which we did not ship to do." "Are you ready to do duty on board of the Teaser when she is in deep water, Lonley?" asked Christy. "Every one of us; and every one of the party on shore!" protested the leader.
He gave some of the particulars of the capture of the Teaser, and mentioned the name of Lonley, who had told him that Colonel Passford had offered him the command of a schooner he had loaded with cotton to run the blockade; but the planter said nothing to indicate that he had ever heard of the privateersman.
"How many men?" repeated the lieutenant of the Bellevite. "That is the question I asked," replied the lieutenant of the Teaser. "I suppose you would not believe me if I should tell you," answered Christy. "I judge that you can speak the truth if you try," added Lonley, with more asperity than the occasion seemed to require.
"He is; and he wants to get back to the other side of the inland," answered Christy, who considered it his duty to make his replies as suitable to the occasion as possible. "Who is speaking?" "Lieutenant Lonley," replied the man; and Christy knew him, though he did not know his rank before. "He wants to see Gilder before he goes on board. Tell him to come on shore in his canoe."
"On board the Teaser!" shouted Lonley, so distinctly that he could hardly have been more than three hundred feet from the steamer. "On shore," replied Christy, prompted by Mr. Blowitt. "I am waiting for Gilder! Why don't he come on shore?" shouted Lonley, his impatience apparent in his tones. "Where are all the men?" demanded Christy, as requested by the second lieutenant.
"Fetters!" exclaimed Captain Lonley, apparently bewildered by the reply. "It seems to me that Fetterses are plenty to-night." But this was all he was permitted to say, for the stroke of a handspike, in the hands of Flint, fell upon his head at this instant, and he dropped upon the quarter-deck like a log.
"I have in a case such as this was," added the lieutenant, with a chuckle, as he thought of the particular kind of persuasion he had used upon the captain of the privateer. "I would give a good deal if I had just such powers, for they are sometimes of very great service to an officer." "You are quite right, Mr. Lonley. I suppose you are the first lieutenant of the Teaser."
"I succeeded in persuading Captain Folkner that he had better come out by the main channel; and that is the way we did come out, and that explains how we happen to be here at this time in the morning," replied Christy, very cheerfully. "You must have very strong powers of persuasion, Captain Gilder," said Lonley, laughing.
"What is that for?" demanded Christy, rather surprised at the unexpected request. "I want to see him on particular business; I have a message for him, which I cannot deliver in presence of any other person," replied Lonley. "All right; you shall see him soon," answered Christy. "Get out the boats to take us on board," continued Lonley.
He realized too that the scheme had been very well planned, though he was really happy in the belief that it would be a failure in the end. Lonley seemed to be the leading spirit in the affair, and managed the details. He had intended that the boats should be sent from the Teaser to a point at least a mile off.
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