The Blockade Runner — page 231: what you’re looking at

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THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. OD re) ao CHAPTER XXIX. AT THE POINT OF THE REVOLVER. WueEN Captain Dick Powers, of the new and untried privateer Destroyer, recovered from Powell’s stunning blows he found himself in a room which he was aware he had never entered before. His first impulse was to rush out and follow the blockade runner, whom he knew could not be far away. He would pay Powell back for those blows; he would have his life for them; he would yet carry out his oath by making Norah his wife! Scrambling to his feet, for he had fallen headlong into the house, he was about to make a dash for the street, when a man stepped suddenly between him and the door, and faced him with determined if not triumphant countenance. “ Throxton!” exclaimed Powers, starting back as he stared at the man, whom he instantly recognized. “T was not aware that [ had fallen into your house.” The man at the door seemed to smile maliciously. ” “You came in without knocking,” he answered. “T was not expecting a visitor—especially an officer in the employ of the Confederacy.” “Which means that Iam not welcome.” “Ah! you are mistaken!” was the quick rejoinder. “Of all the men I know, there is not one whom | | ‘conmmicloookS,conns