The Blockade Runner — page 258: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

= THE BLOCKADE RUNNER, ‘O59 Having seen Bentham, the gallant young gunner, tri- umphant in one of the shrewdest games of the whole war, the story is almost told. But how happened it that the Avenger, which had been bound southward, came to turn up so opportunely at her old cruising ground? Captain Graham had touched at Havana, where he found an order from the secretary of war calling his attention to the fact that the department had been advised of the fitting out at Nassau of a new and dan- gerous privateer called the Destoyer, which was to be entrusted to Captain Powers, late commander of the Swiftwing. The order directed Graham to return to the Bahamas and head her off, which he did, with the result we have already detailed. Bentham was dispatched home in the captured priva- teer, which was in command of the Avenger’s second officer as prize master. He wore a lieutenant’s uniform when he rejoined the Avenger, and a commander’s at the close of the war; but long before the happy termination of the conflict he was united in marriage to the girl of his heart—Norah Narcross, otherwise Mowbray. The large estate left by Gordon Mowbray was con- fiscated on a technicality by the Confederate govern- ment; but at the end of the war, Bentham instituted legal proceedings and recovered for iis wite a portion of her property. As for Powell, the blockade runner, he served the Confederacy in that capacity to the close of the war, and many was the rich cargo he bore across the seas to the lost cause. Jupe, the faithful black, remained with Bentham to 5} comicbooks<e