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"Then if I do not yield the point, you intend to leave me to carry out this enterprise alone?" demanded Mulgate. "In that case, I wish to go with you, Captain Carboneer," added Corny, with emphasis. "But I want it understood that I shall not leave Bonnydale without telling my uncle to look out for his daughter." "Then you mean to be a traitor, Corny?" said Mulgate angrily.
They are waiting for something, though I don't know what, and she may be sent to the navy yard to-morrow; and then it will be too late for us to do anything." "But to-night that is rather hurried," added Mulgate, musing. Very likely he was thinking of the beautiful Miss Florry in the elegant mansion a short distance up the river.
"Your wish in this respect shall be respected, Mr. Mulgate. I was about to say that I had a ship's company all ready to take possession of this craft, to handle her at sea, and even to fight a battle if necessary." "But where are your ship's company?" asked Mulgate, as he wished still to be called. "I will produce them at the right time.
If we lose the game it will be by your blundering," continued the major, or Mulgate, as he preferred to be called on the present occasion. "I suppose you have no talent for blundering, Mulgate; and that is the reason why you happen to be here at the present moment," retorted Corny, not at all pleased with the speech of the other. "None of your impudence, Neal!" said Mulgate, sharply.
"To-night!" exclaimed Mulgate, who seemed to be astounded at the revelation. "Yes, to-night; in a few hours from now. I have obtained all the information I could in regard to the steamer, and what we do must be done at once. The Bellevite, as they call her now, has not yet been handed over to the government, though she has been accepted.
"I will do my duty faithfully; but I will not assist in robbing my uncle of his daughter." "You are quite right, young man; and I would rather be sent to the fort as a prisoner of war than take part in such an enterprise," added Captain Carboneer, in mild but forcible tones. "You astonish me, captain!" said Mulgate. "Why do you talk about an outrage?
"She will answer very well," replied the captain, as he applied his shoulder to the stem of the craft to ascertain how heavily she rested upon the beach. "Now, do you know whether there is any person on board of that steamer?" "Of course, I don't know anything about it," said Mulgate. "I am sure I don't," added Corny.
"He is Captain Carboneer," replied the major discreetly. "Perhaps he is Captain Carboneer; I don't know: things are not always what they seem, and I find that persons are not, either. Hasn't that been your experience, Mr. Mulgate I beg your pardon, Major Pierson?" The prisoner frowned, and gave a fierce glance at the midshipman, as though he felt like annihilating him with a look.
Mulgate; but Florry cares no more about you than she does about Uncle Pedro, my father's house-servant. She saw you both at Glenfield, and I can't tell which she likes best." "We had better drop the subject," added Captain Carboneer. "Drop it, then," replied Mulgate sullenly. "Get over the fence, Corny. Nobody is using that sailboat, and we may as well take it for a while."
"She is the lady of whom I spoke to you; she spent the last winter with her uncle at the Glenfield Plantation. I am interested in her," replied Mulgate, as though he had given a sufficient excuse for the questions he had put to Corny. "Are we to capture her and take her back to the State of Alabama?" demanded the other, who seemed to be a gentleman of forty at least.
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