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"No, sir; I was not wounded. Your men did not fire into our party, as we did into your boat. The fact is, Captain Passford, I have an ornament on my left wrist which I am a little timid about displaying before people, though I do not object to showing it to you," replied the guest, as he held up his left hand, and from the wrist a pair of handcuffs hung down, for he had succeeded in removing it only from his right hand.
āļĢāļāļĒāļąāļĨ āļŠ āđāļ āļĢāļ āļ āļĨāļą āļ 327 "Dar's somebody comin' from de fort! He's comin' mighty quick shore." CHAPTER XXII THE STRANGER IN THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN The speakers said no more, but leaving the locality near the berth, they moved forward in a body. Christy was sorry he was not to hear any more of the conversation; but he felt that he had made some progress in his work. He had obtained the names of two of the men, and ascertained that one of the officers in the ward room was a Confederate. With this information he could the more readily obtain more. Christy did not wish to sleep, and he felt that he could not afford to spend his time in that way. He sat up in the berth, and wrote the two names he had heard in his pocket-diary, in order to make sure that he did not forget 106 them. While he was thus engaged Dr. Connelly came into the quarters of the crew. "The Magnolia, bound to Appalachicola," replied 209 the spokesman of the craft. "What boat is that?"