The Blockade Runner — page 100: what you’re looking at

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THH BLOCKADE RUNNER. 101 CHAPTER XIII. AN OCEAN TRAGEDY. Gorpon Mowsray was a man of quick temper. He had by no means forgotten that it was Flask Gilmor who had inveigled him into taking the privateer Swiftwing at a big figure, when he must have known that the transaction was a barefaced swindle. This man had ever been a welcome visitor at his house, had sat at his table, and was pointed in his at- tentions to Norah; yet he took advantage of that very friendship to play the part of a rascai. Mowbray could not forgive such an exhibition of double dealing. _It went against his grain and he longed to resent it. Therefore the discovery that Flash Gilmor was on board the Foxhound, in disguise and under an alias, could not fail to disturb the wealthy Southerner. What was this man’s object in taking passage on the Foxhound ?’ Nothing good at any rate, Mowbray was constrained to think. Unable to control his feelings, and fearful of making a scene on deck, the father of Norah turned on his heel and walked away. | Lhe girl was in her stateroom, and thither her foster- father went. He knocked and she opened the door. “J was afraid you had retired, my child,” he said, COMmicoooks co Boe