They were all as good to me when I was on parole at Bonnydale as though no war had ever divided us." The colonel took Christy by the hand, and betrayed no little emotion as they parted.

The lieutenant realized that his uncle was suffering severely under the hardships and anxieties of the war, and he was profoundly sorry for him, though he uttered no complaint.

Both on his own account and on that of the Confederacy, he had shipped several cargoes of cotton to Nassau to be sent from there to England; but every one of them had been captured, most of them by his nephew while in command of the Bronx.

But he was still confident that the Confederacy would triumph.
Colonel Passford had been sent to the fort under a flag of truce, and had been received by the commandant.

In a couple of days the repairs of both ships had been completed.