Isn't it very strange that I should forget a message of so much importance that it could not be trusted to writing ?" "Passing strange, I should say," answered Christy, who began to understand that he had fallen into a trap of some sort.

"While you are thinking of it, I will go on board, and persuade Captain Folkner not to run the Teaser to the eastward if he should take it into his head to do so.

I had no idea there was a Yankee gunboat in that direction, and I don't believe the captain had.

Besides, he don't know where he is in this fog, and he needs me." As he spoke, Christy tried to withdraw his hand from the grasp of Lonley, as he had not succeeded in doing before when he tried.

But the privateersman suddenly fell upon him, and both of them went down.