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"If you lose the game, you say that it will be by my blundering, Mulgate," continued Corny. "That makes it seem as though I was to bear the responsibility of a failure; and I don't like the looks of things. If I am to be responsible for a failure, I ought to have something to say about the manner of conducting the enterprise." "Shut up, Neal! We have no time to talk nonsense of that sort.
"As you said, Captain Carboneer, I am no sailor; and you don't think of taking the steamer out of the river alone?" added Mulgate. "I have not come here on a fool's errand, Major Pierson," replied the captain. "We are alone now, and we may call things by their right names." "But I don't care to have my name used in this vicinity," interposed this gentleman, when addressed by his own name.
He had never seen the captain before, and had not even been informed who and what he was; but he appeared to be a more important person than Mulgate, and he did not wait for the latter to argue his point. He had sailed in the Florence very often, and he knew all about her. He took a boathook, and planted its point on the beach, in readiness to shove off.
"Am I to understand that you renounce your scheme to carry off a woman as a part of the enterprise?" demanded the captain. "I do not renounce it, though I have no intention to carry off a woman, as you put it. The most I have asked is that she be permitted to go as a passenger of her own free will," replied Mulgate. "She never will go with him of her own free will," interposed Corny.
"Speak quick then, for we have no time to spare," added Mulgate. "Do I understand from what you have said that you intend to take Florry Passford back to the South with you?" asked Corny, with his teeth closely pressed together, so that it was rather difficult for him to speak intelligibly. "I answer, as I did before, that I don't know what I shall do; that depends," replied Mulgate evasively.
"I sent you up here to ascertain all about the Bellevite," continued Mulgate, rather sharply. "I have not had time to find out anything," Corny explained, with some indignation in his tones. "Corny has done as well as he could in the time he has had to do it in," interposed Captain Carboneer. "I think you are inclined to stir up bad blood with this young man, Mulgate.
"Call it what you like." "All this is absurd, Mulgate," interposed Captain Carboneer. "Without my resources, you can do nothing at all, and it would be foolish for you to attempt the capture of the vessel. You are not a sailor or a navigator, and you could do nothing with the vessel if you succeeded in getting her to sea."
"I don't think I have any idea to renounce," muttered Mulgate. "You certainly hinted that you desired to take a lady on board, and convey her to our destination," said the captain, rather earnestly. "Not against her will, as you and Corny will have it," protested Mulgate. "Do you renounce that plan or that idea, whatever it may be?" "I do not renounce it.
"I renounce my scheme, and I will not ask that the lady be a passenger even to Bermuda or Nassau," replied Mulgate, though not without a considerable display of emotion. "Very well; that is enough. Nothing more need be said about your purpose, since you have renounced it.
"There will be time enough for you to look for a wife after the war is over, and you have more time to attend to the affair." "Mr. Mulgate, I should like to know something more about your intentions before we go any farther," interposed Corny, in a tone so decided that Mulgate had to listen to him, especially as he had obtained so little sympathy from the elderly gentleman.
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