The Blockade Runner — page 183: what you’re looking at

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14 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. “Any time after the sailing of the Destroyer. I have to wait until Powers has put to sea. I wish that man and his new privateer were at the bottom of the ocean !” It was thus determined that Flash Gilmor should fight Bentham after the departure of the new and formidablep rivateer which had been purchased for Powers since his arrival at Nassau. They went so far as to select the ground and name the time—all this without consulting the Union cunner. They knew that Bentham would not shrink from the encounter, for he was eager to meet Flash Gilmor, and avenge Mowbray’s death. It was still dark when the two men left the captain's cabin and adjourned to the quarter- deck with a couple of prime cigars. The sky was overcast, but a delightful breeze blew across the bay, which was well studded with water- craft of all kinds. Gilmor owed the preservation of his life to Captain Nugent, of the blockade runner Seabird, and his escape from the Foxhound after the killing of Gordon Mowbray. Fortune or fate ee him, for after rowing hard from the Foxhound until near dawn he was picked up by the Seabird, Captain Nugent, on her way to Nassau. It happened that Gilmor and the blockade runner were old friends, and the meeting at sea proved mutu- ally agreeable. The Seabird reached Nassau without accident; but Gilmor was obliged to move about with aan for gfish Comichbooksico