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Passford; the sounds are only signals, and they are intended to notify you that your friends are in search of you," added Lonley, hastening up to the advance of the party. "I should be very sorry to do such a thing, but if you shout, or do anything to inform that party where you are, it will be my duty to shoot you." "I am not disposed to be rash, Mr. Lonley.
The seamen, under the leadership of Lonley, who appeared to be an officer, were the more powerful party, and the more to be dreaded. He was disposed to decide against them, if he could get them out of the way by doing so. They were willing to leave the matter to him, and he began at last to see his way through it.
"Do not take any unnecessary risks, Captain Lonley, for more than the value of the cotton is at stake," continued the planter. "I have a plan of my own which I am confident will take me through the blockade all right," added the captain. "You must remember that my brother's steamer is on the blockade, and that she makes over twenty knots an hour."
Besides, he don't know where he is in this fog, and he needs me." As he spoke, Christy tried to withdraw his hand from the grasp of Lonley, as he had not succeeded in doing before when he tried. But the privateersman suddenly fell upon him, and both of them went down.
Captain Lonley was conveyed on board of the Bellevite, where he was committed to the sick bay. He had recovered his senses, but it was likely, the surgeon said, that it would be a month before his health was restored.
We appeal to you, Captain Gilder," said Lonley. "Why do you object to going out through Santa Rosa Sound?" asked Christy, willing to do the fair thing, since the mutineers had appealed to him. "The Teaser draws ten feet of water with her coal in, and she cannot get through the sound in a week, if ever." "Are you willing to go to sea by running the blockade, Lonley?"
"I was as sure as you were, Lonley; but I believe they had fifty men all ready for us. They let us leap on deck without much opposition, and then they surrounded us, and took us by surprise, for I did not suppose, after what you said, that they had a dozen men," replied the wounded lieutenant.
It was noon when they woke, and it looked as though something was going on at the vessel. About half a dozen negroes were to be seen on the deck-load of cotton; and a little later in the day, Colonel Passford and Lonley were observed talking together. But nothing was done that day, and the night came on.
"Are you much hurt, Mr. Folkner?" asked Lonley of the injured officer. "I don't know; my shoulder feels numb, and I can't use my arm," replied Folkner. "But I can use my legs, and I think that is what we had better be doing." "I don't understand it," protested Lonley, very much dissatisfied with the result of the action, as may well be supposed. "I was sure you would carry her deck at once."
He had spent the time after he was landed with his companions at Town Point, and organized his force for the recapture of the Teaser. The failure of the final attack was as severe upon him as the loss of his vessel had been upon Captain Folkner. "Who are you?" demanded Lonley, when he had in some measure recovered from the shock which the failure gave him.
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