It is said, and I suppose it is true, that about every one of the blockaders makes a port at Halifax, the Bermudas, or Nassau, as much to learn the news and obtain a pilot, as to replenish their coal and stores." "That is unfortunately true; and the neutrality of these places is strained to its utmost tension, to say nothing of its manifest violations." "I think if Monsieur Gilfleur and myself could make another visit to the Bermudas and Nassau, we might pick up information enough to insure the capture of many blockade-runners, and perhaps of an occasional Confederate cruiser," said Christy, laughing as he spoke.
"That is not the sort of business for a lieutenant-commander in the navy, my son; but I have thought of sending the detective on such a mission since the remarkable success you and he had in your former venture.

But you escaped hanging or a Confederate prison only by the skin of your teeth.

The difficulty in another enterprise of that sort would be for Mr.Gilfleur to put the information he obtained where it would do the most good.

If he wrote letters, they would betray him; and if he went off in a Bahama boat, as he did before, we should have to keep a steamer cruising in the vicinity of his field of operations to meet him when he came off.

I came to the conclusion that the scheme was impracticable, for it was only a combination of favorable circumstances that rendered your operations successful.