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"I am perfectly satisfied with that arrangement," replied Lonley. "But I am not," interposed the captain, angrily. "What can I do without any crew to help get the steamer through the sound?" "I have men enough to take care of you and the Teaser, Captain Folkner; and the men in the boat will do everything that is required to be done on board of the Teaser."
"You had a glance at them in the boats, though the darkness and fog were rather too thick for you to count them," replied Lonley, chuckling over the deception he had practised upon the lieutenant of the Bellevite. "Yes, I saw them, and I concluded that they could not be where their bags were." "All is fair in war."
"Hardly, my excellent friend: when Captain Folkner addressed me by that name, I did not object to it." "That was just as much a lie as though you had claimed it in so many words," protested Lonley. "I admit it; and I hardly expect a true patriot to tell the truth to the enemy. If I remember rightly, you told me yourself that your men had gone to the eastward where they had left their bags.
He had not the same risk to run in getting through the blockading fleet that Captain Lonley would have had, and he promptly decided to take his chances without waiting for a dark and foggy night. A boat came off from the inner side of the fort, and Christy ordered Flint to bring her to. The permit to pass the forts was in due form, and signed by the proper officials.
"Fortunately for me, it is not necessary that you should place me this time," replied Christy. "It is equally fortunate that I am not compelled to place you again, as I felt obliged to do, on board of the Judith in Mobile Bay." "Passford!" exclaimed Captain Lonley, stepping back a pace in his astonishment.
"I saw him ten days ago, and he was very well then. I am very happy to have made a prisoner of his enterprising nephew, who appears to be capable of doing our cause a great deal of mischief," replied Lonley, looking earnestly in the direction of the Teaser. "Thank you, Mr. Lonley; I certainly intend to do it all the mischief I can in a legitimate way. I am speaking the truth now," said Christy.
"I did not suppose they had even a dozen men left on board," Lonley explained, with humiliation in his tones. "I staid in the boat till I had seen all my men on deck," continued Mr. Folkner. "They surrounded our force, and tumbled them into the hold as though they had been pigs, slashing them with their cutlasses if they tried to get out.
You will give the one on the top to the officer from the fort, and he will cause you no delay." Lonley took the papers, and thrust them into his pocket without any reply. Christy had taken charge of the hoisting of the mainsail without waiting for any special orders, and Flint was doing his best to assist him.
"But I have my doubts whether, after this, either of us will be likely to believe what the other says. But, for my part, I wish to say that I don't believe in telling anything but necessary and patriotic lies." "That is my view of the matter exactly; and if there is any man that despises a liar, I am that man," said Lonley warmly.
"Help! help!" shouted a man in the water at no great distance from the shore. "What does that mean?" said Lonley, springing to his feet. "It is a call for help, and, as my hands are tied behind me, I cannot respond to it, as I would gladly do, be the man who needs it friend or enemy," replied Christy. "There is the canoe in which we came ashore, Lieutenant Lonley, and you can use that."
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