This gentleman is my own cousin, Captain Battleton, though I am sorry to say that he is a rebel; but for all that he is one of the finest fellows in the known world, and you will appreciate everything about him except his politics, which I do not admire myself." Christy was not stunned or overwhelmed by this impudent speech.

He looked at the speaker, and promptly recognized his cousin Corny.

He was astonished at the brazen assurance of the other, for he had always seemed to him to be a fairly modest young man.

Corny extended his hand to Christy, and it was accepted.
"I am very glad to see you, Corny," said he of the South, "and not the less glad because the meeting is so unexpected." "It is certainly very unexpected on my part, Corny," replied Christy, who began to comprehend the object of his cousin; but there was something so ludicrous in the situation that he was more disposed to laugh than to look upon it seriously.
"I am very glad to see you, Corny," continued he who bore that name in reality.

"I did not expect to find you on board of the Vernon.