The Blockade Runner — page 259: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

-¥ 260 ©" - THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. the close of the terrible conflict, and’served the Union bravely in many a desperate encounter afloat and ashore. It seems that the letter which so mysteriously reached Bentham after the great naval fight in Hampton Roads had been intrusted to a slave for delivery, but something frightened the messenger so that, instead of placing it in Bentham’s hands, he left it under the bastion where it was found and served its purpose. The loyal Throxton, of course, never returned to Nas- sau after his escape with the gunner in-the Destroyer. If he had he would have been seized and summarily dealt with. Powers and Powell pronild have hunted him down. He entered the Union service before the close of the war, serving under Bentham, who commanded the Avenger at the close of hostilities. He was rewarded for his services at Nassau. | Dora, Powell’s niece, married a Confederate captain, and Jennie Throxton found a lover and husband in the person of a young Union officer. i: Peace hovers over land and sea, and bestows her laurels upon friend and foe alike—whether they trod the decks of a Union brig, or manned the guns of a .. Confederate sloop-of-war. eae . [THE END, | be J ee ene i Rae at ee § AES ES ‘ ; a nS aiok “com C208 S5(EOU