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1 ลอตเตอรี่ "South-west," repeated the first lieutenant, addressing the quartermaster who was conning the wheel. The big steamer, as she certainly was compared with the Bronx, started her screw again, and came within less than half a cable's length of the little gunboat, for the water was very still, with a gentle breeze from the westward. The boat was dropped into the water; and in a minute or two it was at the accommodation ladder of the Bronx, when a couple of officers mounted the side. "Peach says he has taken his valise with him, which indicates that he has gone for good." "Who are the other prisoners?" demanded Corny, as though he had a right to know. "I have my commission as a lieutenant, and my orders to take passage in the Vernon, and to take command of the Bronx on my arrival at the station of the Eastern Gulf squadron," said Corny, as he pulled a huge envelope from his breast pocket; and Christy could not but notice the perfect confidence with which he spoke.