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A Victorious Union

CHAPTER XVI
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Je suis bien fache que vous etes blesse._ (Very well, Captain.

I am very sorry that you are wounded.) You need the attention of the surgeon, sir," replied the loyal officer.
"I take my turn with my men, Mr.Passford, and my officers do the same.
The fortune of war is with you again, and I congratulate you on the success which has attended you.

I saw that it was you who upset my plan for receiving your boarders.

I was confident, with that device of mine, I should be able to beat off your boarders, and I intended to carry your deck by boarding you in turn.

I think your commander can give you the credit of winning the victory for the Bellevite in his despatches; for I should have killed more of your men with that thirty-pounder than you did of mine, for I should have raked the column.


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