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It was clearly impossible for the ship to continue on her voyage with such an addition to her numbers; and the Chateaugay was at once headed back to New York.
The Snapper's case was settled, therefore, outside of the courts. Captain Flanger perished in his wickedness, and Percy Pierson never reached his mother in Mobile. But it was weeks before the news of the disaster reached the Chateaugay and the Bellevite. Christy did not mourn the loss of his great enemy, and he was sorry only that the young man had not lived long enough to become a better man.
This was a hard question, and it was utterly impossible to make a truthful reply without upsetting the plan of Mr. Gilfleur, and rendering useless the voyage of the Chateaugay to the Bahamas. "I am in just as bad a scrape as you were when you were caught on board of the Bellevite," replied Christy after a moment's reflection. "Are you a prisoner of war?"
The fourth day after we left Chateaugay my grandmother fell ill and died suddenly there in the deep woods. We were far from any village, and sorrow slowed our steps. We pushed on, coming soon to a sawmill and a small settlement. They told us there was neither minister nor undertaker within forty miles.
They ferried across the lake at Burlington and fared away over the mountains and through the deep forest on the Chateaugay trail. . . . They had read a little book called The Country of the Sangamon. The latter was a word of the Pottawatomies meaning "land of plenty."
His father had not written to him in regard to the second vessel which the Chateaugay was to look out for in the vicinity of the Bermuda Islands, and he only knew what the captain had told him in regard to the matter. If the steamer was armed, as probably she was, an action would be likely to come off, and the young lieutenant could not remain idle while a battle was in prospect.
The Eleuthera was cast off, the captain wished them a safe and prosperous voyage to their destination. The mainsail had been set, and the breeze soon wafted the boat away from the ship. The Chateaugay started her screw, and headed off to the eastward again, on the lookout for blockade-runners. "Here is a light ahead," said Christy, after his companion had set the jib, and taken the helm.
"But the department thinks it has lost an able commander," continued the captain with a smile. "I am willing to let the department think so, father. All I really ask of the officials now is to send me back to the Gulf, and to the Bellevite. I believe you said that I was to go as a passenger in the Chateaugay." "I did; and she has been ready for over a week."
"Possibly her captain knows what he is about as well as you do," suggested Christy. "I don't believe he does. There isn't a fathom of water on some of these shoals." But the Chateaugay kept on her course, though she proceeded very slowly.
Lieutenant Chantor is appointed to the command of the Chateaugay, Christy, in which you take passage to the Gulf; but she will not go there directly." "Captain Chantor," said Gates, as he opened the door for the visitor.
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