All the soldiers in the boat with your brother have their muskets; and he would not have taken the lieutenant and six men with him if he were simply going for the doctor for Captain Pecklar, as he told me he was." "I believe Lindley is a fool to think of such a thing as capturing the Bellevite with eight men," added Percy.
"I don't know what else he can intend to do, but I do know why he don't take the tug any nearer to the steamer.

He don't want my father to know what has become of me." "Can't you make some sort of a signal to him, Christy ?" "I can do something better than that." "What's that ?" "I can show myself to him.

But, before I do that, I must know how you stand, Percy." "How I stand?
You know as much about me as I know about myself.

I want to get on board of the Bellevite, and I am not a bit anxious to fight my brother's battle for him.

I know what he is after, now I think of it." "Well, what is he after ?" "He is after the Bellevite; and if he can take her, he is sure of a colonel's commission." "I should say that he could not do any thing better for the Confederacy than to present it with the finest steamer in the world.