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Fighting for the Right

CHAPTER XXVI
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He gave the names of all the intending blockade-runners in the harbor of Nassau; but the captain declared that he could not capture them on any such evidence as the detective had been able to obtain, for it would not prove the intention.
"The Ovidio may not come out of Nassau for two months to come, and then she will proceed to Green Cay," said Captain Chantor.

"I do not think I should be justified in waiting so long for her, especially as she is to run her cargo into Mobile.

The blockaders will probably be able to pick her up.

I think my mission in the Bahama Islands is finished, and the Chateaugay must proceed to more fruitful fields." "But you have not made a bad voyage of it so far, Captain Chantor," added Christy.

"You sent in the Ionian, sunk the Dornoch, and captured the Cadet and the Snapper, to say nothing of bagging a Confederate commissioner, and the son of another.


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