I should be sorry to disappoint them," continued Christy, chuckling all the time.
"Precisely so! I suppose you would be greatly grieved to blast their hopes, and you propose to take them on board of the steamer." "That is the idea, sir.

Taking a more patriotic view of the question, it would be a great pity to allow forty good sailors to waste their energies in the service of the Confederacy." "Undoubtedly it would," said Captain Breaker, his brow knitting under his earnest thought.

"What do you propose to do?
Explain your plan fully, Mr.Passford." "The principal of the malcontents on board of the Teaser was a man by the name of Lonley," Christy explained.

"We left them at the point where the rest of the Teaser's crew were to join them.

They are all anxious to get to sea in the Teaser, and I have no doubt they will come down to-night." "I should think they would," the captain assented.