"He's up to that trick every time.

We're not chasing Spanish fleets alone.

The captain knows his business all right, all right." Word was brought from the upper deck presently, that we were in pursuit of a strange steamer which had been discovered lurking on the horizon.
She failed to respond to our signals, and chase was made forthwith.

The "Yankee's" speed soon proved superior to that of the stranger, and within an hour we had her close aboard.
"It's an English tramp from the looks of her," reported "Hay," who had a choice position near the gun port.

"She's got a dozen people on the bridge and they are badly scared." A blank six-pounder was fired, but she did not heed it, so a shot was fired across the stranger's bows, and she hove-to in short order.
"Steamer ahoy!" came faintly to our ears from on deck.