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CHAPTER XV A REBELLIOUS AND PREJUDICED PRISONER
āļāļēāļ 20 āļĢāļąāļ 40 "But we have plenty of good men, and some of them will make good officers," suggested the first lieutenant. "I have done something in the business, and perhaps I can cure the man who is sick, if they have the proper medicine," added the officer. "A prisoner of war!" exclaimed the steward. "The commander of the ship a prisoner!" "About nine o'clock; perhaps sooner. Byron will have the deck from eight bells for the first watch; I hope and expect Flint will turn in at that time, for he will have the mid-watch. It might be a little awkward if he happens to be on deck when we change our course from east to west." "Grass! They don't raise it in the city; and there isn't as much of it in all the streets as I saw in the principal one in Mobile when I was there, on my way from the prison to the bay," replied the commander cheerfully. "I don't believe that business was ever so lively in New York and the other cities of the North as it is at this time; and I left there ten days ago." In another half hour the noises could be distinctly heard by the third lieutenant, and he directed the course of the cutter without the need of any more signals from the bow. His first move was to make a more decided course to the southward. Then he hastened the crew in their work. "Five dollars is just what I said," replied the lieutenant, as he took a bill of that denomination from his porte-monnaie, rolled it around the boat-hook, and fixed it so that it should not blow away.