The two Unionists on board did not even know the name of the schooner, but she gathered headway as she approached the mouth of the creek, and went along at a very satisfactory rate.

The mate of the vessel and his fellow fugitive then went aft to be ready for the decisive action in which they were to engage.

But they had hardly reached the quarter-deck before the schooner was hailed by a boat.
"Schooner, ahoy! On board the Judith!" shouted a man.
"In the boat!" replied the captain.

"Who's there ?" "Fetters!" responded the boatman.
"Fetters!" exclaimed Captain Lonley, apparently bewildered by the reply.
"It seems to me that Fetterses are plenty to-night." But this was all he was permitted to say, for the stroke of a handspike, in the hands of Flint, fell upon his head at this instant, and he dropped upon the quarter-deck like a log.

At the same moment, Christy sprang to the wheel, and the schooner was not allowed to broach to.