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"What has broken now, mother?" asked the lieutenant, glancing from one to the other of the busy couple.

scg9vip 42 "I never heard of the place before, sir," persisted the seaman. CHAPTER XIX THE SKIPPER OF THE SLOOP MAGNOLIA "And because, in your present enterprise as you have outlined it, you cannot get along without me," said Christy. "And a quarter three!" cried the leadsman. "You are on board of the United States steamer Bronx, and I am the commander of her," replied Christy, desiring to encourage Michael Bornhoff to tell all he knew about the expedition in the Magnolia. The venerable colored man, who had given so much assistance and information to the third lieutenant on shore, had no desire to leave his home, and he was landed in the darkness of the evening at a considerable distance from the fort. Christy 361 had rewarded him handsomely for the service he had rendered. The men in the first and second cutters had taken all the cotton in the small steamers, and put it on board of the Sphinx before they set them on fire. The four guns in the hold had been hoisted out to make room for the bales, and the vessel had been put in condition for her voyage.