Whatever passed between the flag-officer and Captain Battleton, nothing at all was said among the officers about the decision the commander of the Vernon had been obliged to make when he accepted your cousin as the genuine Christopher Passford, ordered to the command of the Bronx.

While I thought you were somewhat altered in appearance, and that your greeting to me was rather cold and formal when you came on board, I did not suspect that the officer who represented you was an impostor." "Do you think you should have let these conspirators run into Pensacola Bay without meddling with the matter ?" asked Christy.
"I am sure I should, for I could not have helped myself.

The captain had his orders, to be opened about this time; and I should have supposed you were going into the bay to shell out Fort Barrancas." "You could hardly have supposed that a little gunboat like the Bronx was sent all alone on such a mission." "I obey my orders without question, and I should not have suspected anything was out of the way.

I was rather cut up when I found that Galvinne had been appointed executive officer; and that, with the cold greeting you gave me, led me to ask in what manner I had lost your good opinion." "Of course Corny asked for his appointment, for Mr.Galvinne was the real leader of the enterprise.

I think you and some of the rest of us have narrowly escaped a Confederate prison." "That is plain enough; and we only escaped it because you took it into your head to leave the Vernon at the time you left her.