I don't believe we shall want you on board of the Bellevite, if that is the way you do your duty." "I don't want to be shot by my own people," pleaded Percy.

"Has the shot ruined the vessel ?" "Don't you see that she is going along the same as ever?
No harm has been done to her so far as any further use to us is concerned," replied Christy.

"But, Captain Pecklar, as things are now, we are running right into the fire." Christy was more troubled than he had been at any time before; and he realized that it was necessary to make some change in the course of the Leopard, though she had the enemy on each side of her.
"It don't look as well as it might," added the captain gloomily.
"The Dauphine is getting altogether too near us, and we are making the distance between us less every minute," added Christy.
"There comes another shot from the Belle.

She means business, and Major Pierson is certainly directing things on board of her.

We can't stand that any longer.