The Yankee Champion — page 88: what you’re looking at

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THE YANKEE CHAMPION, 81 CHAPTER IX. “SaIL-HO!’—THE CONVOY. After the privateer’s officers had become seated around the cabin table, the captain reopened the paper that had so strangely attracted his attention, and again read it through. His companions watched him with anxious countenances, and wondered what he had found. ‘Maynard,’ he said at length, as he spread the open paper before him, “‘your quick eye and ready arm are likely to have done more service than you may think for. That Mason was most deeply dyed in Toryism of the rankest kind, and the British have placed the most unbounded confidence in him.’’ “Well,” returned Maynard, with a _ peculiarly twinkling eye, “‘I don’t know how far they would trust him, but I don’t think much of his judgment. Why, the tarnal fool might ’ave known that he’d get detected.”’ “Oh, perhaps not. In all probability he had not the least idea that he was suspected, and if he had succeeded in cutting the foretopsail-tie, the sloop-of- war would have overhauled us before he could have . been convicted, had you not had your eye on him.’’ “Just as likely as not you are right, capt’n. I guess the sneakin’ villain did really think he could come aboard here an’ do pretty much as he was a mind to without getting caught.”’ “Seems tome if I had discovered the fellow as soon as you did, I should have told of it and had him nabbed at once,” said Cummings. (Eloy aylicel exexoy <j €o n-