"I was confident that I should defeat your boarders, and board and carry your deck in my turn.
I have not yet changed my view of the situation.

You can judge of my consternation when I saw Mr.Passford leap into the mizzen rigging with the agility of a cat, and especially when the order to board my ship was withheld." "Mr.Passford acted without orders, for I should hardly have sent him into the rigging while we were alongside, for it was almost sure death, for your men, armed with muskets and revolvers, were all looking for the firing of the thirty-pounder," added Captain Breaker.
"He was as nimble as a cat, and it seemed to me that he was twice as quick.

But all he needed to unearth my scheme was a single glance at the gun and its crew on the quarter-deck.

In the twinkling of an eye he dropped to the deck, called his boarders, and leaped over the rail into our midst.

It was the most daring and quickly executed manoeuvre I ever observed," continued the Confederate commander with enthusiasm.
"I quite agree with you, Captain Rombold," replied Captain Breaker, as he looked with an affectionate expression upon the pale face of the patient.
"Now, Mr.Passford chooses to regard his brilliant exploit as a matter of little consequence, for he declares that you had discovered, or would have discovered, my plan to annihilate your boarders." "Mr.Passford is entirely in the wrong so far as I am concerned," protested Captain Breaker with a good deal of earnestness.