The Blockade Runner — page 90: what you’re looking at

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~ - ¥ THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. 91 The blockade runner bowed. “T have just discovered it myself, but I am not here for the purpose of seeing the Bardolphs. They left yesterday, baggage and all, and my opinion is that we have seen the last of them.” Mowbray seemed thunderstruck. “ What’s to be done, Powell?” he gasped. “ Cannot the Swiftwing be overhauled ?”’ “No; it is too late for that,’ was the reply of the Foxhound’s commander. “ Everything depends on her captain. Powers may discover the condition of the ship and put back! She isn’t seaworthy, if what I’ve heard is half true. Still, she may be able to make Nassau. I have a good deal of confidence in Powers’ sailing qualities, if we aren’t warm personal friends. Gilmor didn’t go.” “ He was too sick to be moved.” The blockade runner smiled. “Too sick, eh ?” he ejaculated, and then he added, in a significant tone that attracted Mowbray: “ Pve known Flash Gilmor to have such spells before. He'll — be up and about to-morrow cursing the sickness that kept him from sailing in the new. privateer.” Mowbray could not speak. His look was a stare. Captain Powell did not continue, but began to move on, and soon passed out of sight. Mowbray was alone. “The Swiftwing and her captain doomed? One hundred and thirty thousand gone to the bottom of the sea?’ crossed his lips. “I wish I had a revolver at the head of the villain who projected this infamy !” CoOMmuiclooks C@ 5}