ptain's Cabin 70

CHAPTER VII.
The Announcement of the Decision 81

CHAPTER VIII.
The Prisoner of War 92

CHAPTER IX.
A Moral Philosopher 103

CHAPTER X.
A Change of Quarters in the Confusion 114

CHAPTER XI.
Laying out a Plan of Operations 125

CHAPTER XII.
A Lesson in Ordinary Politeness 136

CHAPTER XIII.
The Opening of the Secret Orders 147

CHAPTER XIV.
The Affray on the Quarter-deck of the Bronx 158

CHAPTER XV.
A Rebellious and Prejudiced Prisoner 169

CHAPTER XVI.
The Disposal of the Prisoners 180

CHAPTER XVII.
The Second and Third Lieutenants 191

CHAPTER XVIII.
A Battle on a Small Scale 202

CHAPTER XIX.
The Skipper of the Sloop Magnolia 213

CHAPTER XX.
An Expedition to St. Andrew's Bay 224

CHAPTER XXI.
A Non-combatant on Board the Bronx 235

CHAPTER XXII.
The Stranger in the Captain's Cabin 246

CHAPTER XXIII.
A Very Impudent Declaration 257

CHAPTER XXIV.
A Critical Situation in the Cabin 268

CHAPTER XXV.
The Destruction of a Prominent Facial Member 279

CHAPTER XXVI.
The Meeting with the Bellevite at Night 290

CHAPTER XXVII.
The Planning of an Expedition 301

CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Negro Village on the Isle Grande Terre 312

CHAPTER XXIX.
A Professional Visit to the Fort 323

CHAPTER XXX.
The Attack upon the Fort 334

CHAPTER XXXI.
A Wounded Commander 345

STAND BY THE UNION

CHAPTER I

A MYSTERIOUS VISITATION

"Who's there?" demanded Christy Passford, sitting up in his bed, in the
middle of the night, in his room on the second floor of his father's
palatial mansion on the Hudson, where the young lieutenant was waiting
for a passage to the Gulf.

There was no answer to his inquiry.

"Who's there?" he repeated in a louder tone.

All was as still as it ought to be in the middle of the night, and no
response came to his