The ham was good and so was the bread to hungry men like the fugitives.

At the end of an hour by the midshipman's watch, they felt like new men, and they resumed their places in the boat, and pulled two hours longer, which brought them to the inlet at Glenfield.

At the rude pier where the Bellevite had been moored lay a topsail schooner.
"I don't find any fault, Mr.Passford, but it seems to me that it is rather dangerous for you to come here," said Flint, in a low tone, as soon as they had made out the schooner at the wharf.

"I can't see what you are to make by it; and your uncle would hand you over to the rebel officers as readily as he would eat his breakfast." "I have no doubt he would do so; but I don't intend to give him the chance to do so," replied Christy, resting on his oar.

"You see this schooner.