Taken by the Enemy
, so that no attention was given to him when he made his investigation. At the proper time Captain Passford appeared; but, as the guns
Government, as it was intended that she should be when her present mission was accomplished. During her stay at St. George, such chan
on her course. Already there was not a little activity at the principal foreign ports nearest to the Southern States, created by the hurri
procure vessels for the use of the South in the struggle. The steamer was painted black, and, as she had been built after plans suggested by her owner, she was peculiar in her constructio
uld betray her nationality or character was allowed to be seen. The business of obtaining the needed stores required many of th
a young man to Christy, as he la
, as he looked over the person addressing him, who appe
ontinued the stranger, po
n his expression; and he suspected that he had been placed at the landing to interrogate him or some other person from the steamer, in regard t
ty carelessly, as he pointed at a vessel
an that steamer, off to the north-east," repl
rned about, and directed his finger towards the interior of the is
ean that way. Don't you kno
n I was young, but
ranger, who thought his companion was stupid en
ee, if I don't die of old age before that time," replied Christy, looking the
ome from that steamer over there?" demanded t
rom a place they call Shensiba
and I question if
my veracity?" demanded Ch
, not a
I shall be glad to see you; and then I will endeav
ame from that st
, but it wasn't your
know the name o
on a voyage of discovery to find the north pole, which she expects to reach here in the West Indies. When she find
w! You are
re a Yankee; for they say they live on baked beans, and ea
kee; I am a lon
e meridonial section of the nation o
ed the stranger, loo
idonial
don't know which m
was in the Bangerwhangerlang College in China, and I am sometimes apt to get that l
w
out it. If you prefer to carry on this conversation in Hebre
n do better w
ial' in French means 'southern,' if you w
nger, and he seemed to make the admissio
promptly added Christ
e other. "My name is Perc
ing back with astonishment, as though his
ded Percy Pierson, surprised at
ur name was? Did I u
e any thing surprising about that?" asked
e?" demanded the son of the owner of the Bellevite,
sure, though I ask
innocent young fellow of sixteen, and I don't like to have ot
I don't know yet what it is,
e which I don't understand, and I think I had better bid y
tell me your nam
, and you are up to some trick wi
outhern gentleman, I
might have come. My name is Percy Pierson," added Christy seriously; for he felt that this was a
eal owner of the name. "Didn't I
t is the reason why I thought
be when my name
d, though you may not be aware of the fact, there are seven thousand two hundred and twenty-seven native and foreign bor
little while ago you said you were fro
ther north than a
," continued Pe
of it," asse
er that is, where she is bou
g out his watch. "If you will meet me here to-morrow night at sundown, I will make a beginning of the yarn, and I think I can fini
g a fortune for himself, if he is willing to part with
t with her, and he is determined to get rid of her. I have the means of kno
at is, if the vessel is what she appears to be
ery impatient if I am not on time, and I have some important business with him before dinner," said Christ
n so much of a hurry as he had appeared to be, and he waited in the vicinity till he saw his Southern friend embark in a boat which