nts; but their work was
necessary to the final and glorious result of the most terrible war of
modern times.

No apology is necessary for placing the hero of the story and his
skilful associate in a position at a distance from the actual field of
battle. They were working for the salvation of the Union as effectively
as they could have done in the din of the strife. They were "Fighting
for the Right," as they understood it, though it is not treason to say,
thirty years later, that the people of the South were as sincere as
those of the North; and they could hardly have fought and suffered to
the extent they did if it had been otherwise.

The incidents of the volume are more various than in the preceding
stories, which were so largely a repetition of battle scenes; but the
hero is still as earnest as ever in the cause he loves. He attains a
high position without any ambition to win it; for, like millions of
others who gave the best years of their lives to sustain the Union, who
suffered the most terrible hardships and privations, so many hundreds of
thousands giving their lives to their country, Christy fought and
labored for the cause, and not from any personal ambition. It is the
young man's high character, his devotion to duty, rather than the
incidents and adventures in which he is engaged, that render him worthy
of respect, and deserving of the honors that were bestowed upon him. The
younger participants in the war of the Rebellion, Christy Passford among
the number, are beginning to be grizzled with the snows of fifty
winters; but they are still rejoicing in "A Victorious Union."

William T. Adams.

Dorchester, April 18, 1892.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I.
A Conference at Bonnydale 15

CHAPTER II.
A Complicated Case 26

CHAPTER III.
The Departure of the Chateaugay 37

CHAPTER IV.
Monsieur Gilfleur explains 48

CHAPTER V.
An Abundance of Evidence 59

CHAPTER VI.
The Boarding of the Ionian 70

CHAPTER VII.
A Bold Proposition 81

CHAPTER VIII.
A Notable Expedition 92

CHAPTER IX.
The Frenchman in Bermuda 103

CHAPTER X.
Important Information obtained 114

CHAPTER XI.
An Unexpected Rencontre