Stand By The Union

ny satisfactory conclusion. He was extremely anxious to see the officer who had taken his name and assumed his character, as he was to obtain all the information within his reach. His reflections ass

regard to the result, for he felt that "truth is mighty and must prevail." His only solicitude was to unravel the plot. Bands of Confederates had been put on board of several steamers

sengers to personate the other had been explained to those on the quarter-deck, for he observed that they all

low seem to be improv

his bones ache, so that I cannot say h

an does he a

ng officer to be put in charge of a steamer, for I understand that he is ordered to the command of the Bronx.

e talk

nd as he seems to forget his aches when he speaks of t

?" asked Christy, with a s

e his word for it," replied the s

n that you could not make ou

he could not get his discharge from the navy on his present symptoms. He may have drunk too

elly?" asked Captain Battleton

toast I sent to him, and seemed to enjoy it. I don't thi

im that we have another lieutenant on boar

not my affair, and I don't meddl

re of the fact that there is

said nothing to me

ctor?" asked the captain. "I wish to see him on

elf this morning, and s

him into the cabin; I mean my cabi

, leaving the commande

his affair yet, Mr. Passfor

double," replied Christy, whose curiosity in regard to the sick officer was strongly excited. "I

r Lieutenant Passford was seated in an arm-chair at the table. Christy looked at him with the deepest interest, but the back of the other was tu

d, let me make you acquainted with Lieutenant Passford," sa

isty. "Corny Passford!" exclaimed the sick officer. "I did not expect to see you here. This gentleman is my own cousin, Captain Battleton, though I am sorry to say that he is

recognized his cousin Corny. He was astonished at the brazen assurance of the other, for he had always

d he of the South, "and not the less gl

to comprehend the object of his cousin; but there was something so ludicrous in

hat name in reality. "I did not expect to find you on board

ing heartily, for the situation seemed so amusing to him that the serious part of his cousin's obvious plan had so far hardly dawned upo

d when I left home. My mother is quite well, and so is Florry," replied the sick officer, who did not

o was very much amused to hear each of the young officers call the ot

he and pains in the bones, which was the description of his malady given to the surgeon. "As I have hinted before, my cousin Corny is a rebel

y, dropping upon the divan of t

state of things," added the captain, as he looked from one to the other of the claimants. "One t

My cousin Corny was raised in the South, while I wa

ght up in the North," said Christy, hoping Captain Ba

ought up in the North,

the South, at Glenfield, near Mobile," protested the ailing o

Corny?" asked Christy, sudd

preparing to come on

at Bonnydale?" dema

o the city to attend to some affairs of mine," replied the si

ld think you would have spent your last day on shore w

ded to my affairs; but I got bad again in the afternoon, and I came on board in the evening, for I was a

the earliest opportunity to settle the question as to which is the original and genuine Mr. Passford who was ordered on board of the Vernon as a passenger for the Gulf, and who, I am informed, is appointed to the command of the

he presence of as many officers as you m

id Christy. "The more witnesses the

e steward who answered it to procure the attendance of th

id the captain. "Both of these gentlemen are Lieutenant Christopher Passfo

of the other?" asked the first lieutenant, who seemed to be dis

fficer, and I have invited you to assist me

then seated thems