The Blockade Runner — page 149: what you’re looking at

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150 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. A defiant laugh was the girl’s only reply. “You fling down the gauntlet, my beauty; “but it only goads me forward to victory!” he said. ‘I know where your heart is, but I will cross swords with Bob Bentham on his own deck ere long and show him that the arm he struck down on the banks of the Cape Fear _ River can deal blows of vengeance. Love and live for him, if you will. Here in Nassau you will find few whose hearts beat for our enemies. To this place Bentham dare not- come. Ah, the coward! he will keep behind iron plates and surround himself with ten-inch guns! J long to meet him! I will find him if J have to seek him in the midst of a Yankee fleet.” “Te will not shun the meeting—be sure of that, Captain Powers,” said the girl calmly. “ Look out— he might turn hunter himseH. Stranger things than this have happened.” | Captain Powers vouchsafed no reply, but turned suddenly toward the door. “Good-night,” he said, as he reached the threshold. “]T will keep my oath! You shall become the wife of Captain Powers yet.” He fiung wide the door as he concluded, and‘so sud- | denly that the eavesdropper on the jutside failed to escape discovery. “What! a listener ¢” Eucteinisl Powers, springing madly after the Foxhound’s captain, whom he quickly overtook, and whirled until they stood face to face. “By my soul! it is Powell !” “Jt is Powell!” echoed the blockade runner. “I owe you no apology, captain. [ gave you orders when you left me not to excite that young girl, and I co 5} followed you to see that er orders were re § Ichbooksteo