The Bellevite ran the gantlet of the forts in a dense fog, and brought Miss Florry in safety to her home at Bonnydale.
Corny Passford, whose unexpected arrival at Bonnydale had excited the astonishment of his uncle, was a year older than Christy, and had enlisted in the Confederate service at the instance of Major Pierson.
Without knowing anything in particular about the matter, his uncle believed, at his visit to Glenfield, that Corny was as earnestly devoted to the Southern cause as his father, judging entirely from the fact that he had enlisted as a soldier.
Corny had a good appetite, and a good supper was set before him.

He ate like a hungry boy, and the fact that he was within the enemy's lines did not seem to have any influence upon him.

His aunt helped him till he seemed to be filled to repletion, for she thought he must have been accustomed of late only to the most indifferent fare.

After supper, he followed his uncle back to the library; but he seemed less embarrassed than before.
"Where is Christy, Uncle Horatio ?" asked Corny, as he seated himself in the library.

"I have not seen him yet; and as I was away at the fort when you went to Glenfield, I did not see him then." "I don't know where he is just now, though he is in or about the house most of the time," replied the captain.