The Blockade Runner — page 167: what you’re looking at

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468 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. | “Good !’ exclaimed the young gunner, when he ~~ Jearned this. “I shall yet meet Powers on the deck of a Confederate privateer—just where I have longed to encounter him.” The talkative prisoners also informed Cannoneer 30b of Norah’s trip to Nassau; and, little by little, the story of the terrible tragedy in the Foxhound’s cabin was told. We need not say that the gunner hung on each word with breathless interest. What! Mowbray dead—murdered—and Norah in Nassau, a stranger in a strange city ? What trials, what indignities would not assail her there ! | “The prisoners do not attempt to shield Flash Gilmor,” he said to himself, when he found himself alone. “They cannot. He killed Uncle Gordon in cold blood, and for a purpose as base as his own dark heart. J wish Jupe had finished him that night on the river bank. It would have prevented a murder, any- how. But I still live! Beware, Flash Gilmor! You may yet encounter one whose sword will avenge the death of that impulsive old man! I will not believe that the sea ingulfed the murderer the night of his escape. Waiter does not drown men of his stripe. They live to feel the merciless stroke of a Nemesis.” In the quiet of his little quarters Bob Bentham stood alone thus communing with himself. “T will go to Nassau,” he said, with the air of a man who had formed a great resolution which is cer- tain to bring him face to face with danger. “1 feel that Norah will be surrounded by danger.- Dick Powers is there. Flash Gilmor may soon confront COMIC DOOKSsEO