I am informed that you have been compelled to leave the captain's cabin." "And I cannot find a resting place in the ward room or steerage," added the planter.
"I have come on board of the prize to invite you to share my cabin with Captain Rombold, for I have two staterooms," said Captain Breaker, suddenly changing the subject of conversation.
"You are very kind, my dear sir; but your arrangement would incommode yourself," suggested the colonel.
"My cabin is quite large, and I shall be able to make ample accommodations for myself," persisted the commander, as he took the arm of the planter.

"Permit me to conduct you to your new quarters." "As I am once more a prisoner"-- "Hardly," interposed the captain, as he led the planter to the gangway, "I shall regard you as a non-combatant, at least for the present; and I desire only to make you comfortable.

The flag-officer must decide upon your status." Colonel Passford allowed himself to be conducted to the deck of the Bellevite; and he was no stranger on board of the ship, for when she was a yacht he had made several excursions in her in company with his family.

The first person he observed was his nephew, seated in his arm-chair where he could overlook all that took place on the deck.

He hastened to him, detaching his arm from the hand of the captain, and gave him an affectionate greeting.
"I was very sorry to learn that you were wounded, Christy," said he, holding the right hand of the young officer.
"Not badly wounded, Uncle Homer," replied Christy.