The Yankee Champion — page 32: what you’re looking at

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a ,* J : . eas a a THE YANKEE CHAMPION. 85 CHAPTER III. THE OLD BRICK-MAKER—PLANS FOR THE ATTACK. Early the next morning, Walter Nixon was up and stirring. As soon as he had swallowed an early breakfast he set off in quest of his two officers, whom he soon found, and taking them to a private place, where their conversation could not be heard, he explained to them all that had transpired since they parted the evening before. Both the mates were favorably startled at the revelation, and for several moments they pondered in silence upon what they had heard. “Captain Nixon,’’ said Baker, with a half-doubt- ful expression upon his countenance, ‘‘may not this be some trap to catch us? I don’t like this Tory part of the affair.”? ~ “A trap!’ almost indignantly uttered Nixon, forgetting for the moment that neither of hig officers had seen the boy-messenger. ‘‘No, I will stake my very life on the integrity of him who brought me the intelligence. A trap! Why, you must be beside yourself, Baker. If it were a trap, I am thinking that they who set it would first geet their fingers init. You know that the dastard Tories would not dare to molest us, and as for the crew of that brig, 1 believe we outnumber them. Let me once get my foot on the Englishman’s deck, and their craft is mine.”’ ‘‘And we'll join you,”’ cried both the mates. “Il knew you would. And now we must be about our preparations. You go and hunt up the men and “S (E(@) m EGomichboo