He returned to his duty at once.
Paul Vapoor was inclined to hug him when he met him.
"I felt like a prisoner of war," said Christy, when he had told his brief story.

"The Bellevite was disabled, and I supposed it was all up with me." "A shot from the Killbright damaged our rudder, so that we could not steer her; though we repaired the mischief after a considerable delay," replied the engineer.

"But we have the prize." "She was intended for a cruiser, and they call her the Yazoo." "Whatever her name, she will not be a cruiser on that side." The captured vessel was carefully surveyed; she had been considerably damaged in the contest, but she was still seaworthy, and Mr.Blowitt was appointed prize-master to take her to New York.

All the arrangements were speedily completed, and, when the prize had sailed for her destination, Christy became the acting second lieutenant.
For the next month the Bellevite cruised in search of such craft as the Killbright, and then she took her place on the blockade off Mobile Bay, to which she had been ordered.

Mr.Blowitt and the prize-crew had returned, and all the damage done by the guns of the Yazoo had been repaired, so that the Bellevite was in as good condition as when she left the Navy Yard at Brooklyn.