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Christy listened with interest to the conversation in the captain's cabin, though so far it had afforded him no information in regard to the present situation, and it was hardly likely to do so, for he had already been told by Mr. Flint what the next movement of the Bronx was to be. She had already been ordered to proceed to the eastward, and her sealed instructions would reveal the enterprise in which she was to engage.
āļĒāļīāļ āļāļĨāļē āļāļĢāļ°āļŠāļļāļ āļāļĢāļĩ 150 "I did; you were correctly informed," answered Corny, as the wandering gaze of the commander rested upon him. "No use, Massa Ossifer; dis nigger don't hab teef enough to do dat." "On board the sloop!" replied Mr. Pennant, standing up in the stern sheets. "What sloop is that?" 255 "Because the Bronx is a fast vessel compared with most of the steamers of the navy, hardly any of which are good for more than twelve knots an hour, while this ship will make sixteen when she is driven, and fourteen under ordinary circumstances when we are not trying to save coal. Of course I have no idea what duty we are to perform, and I am not anxious to know till the time comes, though midnight is a rather odd time to open the envelope." "Where is your bag?" asked Mr. Flint, as Christy, the actual commander of the Bronx, passed him. "What are you doing with a valise?"