The Blockade Runner — page 84: what you’re looking at

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THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. $5 CHAPTER XI. ‘“ YoU MUST GIVE HIM UP!” TRUE it was, as written- by Norah’s hand in the mys- teriously delivered letter, that the privateer Swiftwing had got to sea, and true also that Flash Gilmor, who had pocketed a cool twenty thousand by the sale of the ship to Mowbray, had remained behind. Gilmor’s apparent disappointment at being left was very great. His physician had certified to Mowbray that he was too sick to go out with the privateer, but it was a bit astonishing how suddenly his patient recovered when the Swiftwing had run the blockade. ‘He declared that he would proceed at once to Charleston and embark on a swift sailing vessel, with hopes of overtaking the privateer; but he soon forgot his declaration, for he loitered around Wilmington as though he considered it the safest place. Gordon Mowbray hatl seen fit to give Captain Powers sealed instructions, which were not to be opened until a certain point had been reached. “The Swiftwing is a complete vessel in every part,” he said to Norah, when he returned from witnessing the privateer’s departure from her moorings. ‘She will make sad havoc among the Yankee merchant- men. I have confidence in Powers. If he is a young man he knows how to sail and fight a ship.” Norah said nothing for a time. COMMicoooks co 5}