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PHY BLOCKADH RUNNER. Go Co CHAPTER VII. THE DUEL AND THE ESCAPE. Ropert BentHam had marked out his course and was determined to follow it. He did not like to leave his uncle’s house without saying good-by to Norah. He might see the girl before leaving Wilmington if his exit was not hastened by certain events not unlikely to occur, and he was sure that she would not up- braid him for his course of action. Her letters to him during his sojourn in France had not warmly espoused the cause of the Confederacy, and he had not given her any insight to his private feelings or sympathies. “Tt will be a long war, uncle says,” she wrote him shortly after the breaking out of hostilities. “ They (the Confederates) have torn down the old flag which gxladdened our eyes so long, and anew flag, not a whit lovelier, has been hoisted in its place.” Bentham knew that Wilmington would prove too hot a place for him if his true sentiments became known to its citizens, and he resolved to depart wita- out delay. It was now verging on to midnight, and the storm through which the Foxhound had steamed to safety had abated. A number of people still remained in the streets dis- cussing the arrival of the blockade runner and kindred er CoMmicoooks (©) 5}