But I did not escape from a Confederate prison." "You told me you did." "I did not; that was a conclusion to which you jumped with very little help from me." "I thought I was doing my duty to my country." "Then you were an idiot.

You have done your best to compromise your country, as you call it, with the British government.

If your father is not sent out of Nassau, I shall lose my guess as a Yankee." "But my father would not allow Captain Flanger to do you any harm; for he was bent upon hanging you as soon as he got out of sight of land, and he sent me with you to see my mother in order to prevent him from carrying out his threat." "You would have been a powerful preventive in the face of such a brutal ruffian as Captain Flanger," said Christy with a sneer.

"You have lied to me before about your father, and I cannot believe anything you say." "I am speaking the truth now; my father saved your life.

I heard him tell Flanger that he would lose the command of the Snapper if any harm came to you." "If he did so, he did it from the fear of the British authorities.
I have nothing more to say about it." "But as my father saved your life, you ought to stand by me in this scrape," pleaded Percy.
"Whatever was done by you or your father for me, was done from the fear of consequences; and you were the originator of the outrage against me," added Christy, as he descended to the ward room.
The next morning the Snapper was on her voyage to Key West, and the Chateaugay headed for the Hole in the Wall, though she gave it a wide berth, and stood off to the eastward.