XI. A LIVELY FIRE, 172

XXII. AFTER THE BATTLE, 180

XXIII. DR. MACKEY'S BOLD MOVE, 188

XXIV. THE HUNT FOR JACK, 197

XXV. A REMARKABLE REVELATION, 204

XXVI. DR. MACKEY SHOWS HIS HAND, 212

XXVII. COLONEL STANTON'S TALE, 220

XXVIII. IN THE HANDS OF THE GUERRILLAS, 228

XXIX. THE ESCAPE FROM THE CAVE, 235

XXX. BROUGHT TO BAY, 243

XXXI. FATHER AND SON--CONCLUSION, 252

YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK.

CHAPTER I.

THE ENCOUNTER ON THE BRIDGE.

"Get out of the way, boy, or I'll ride over you!"

"Wait a second, please, until I haul in this fish. He's such a beauty I
don't wish to lose him."

"Do you suppose I'm going to bother with your fish? Get out of the way,
I say!" And the man, who sat astride of a coal-black horse, shook his
hand threateningly. He was dressed in the uniform of a surgeon in the
Confederate Army, and his face was dark and crafty.

The boy, who was but fourteen and rather slenderly built, looked up in
surprise. He was seated on the side of a narrow bridge spanning a
mountain stream flowing into the ocean, and near him rested a basket
half-filled with fish. He had been on the point of hauling in another
fish--of extra size--but now his prize gave a sudden flip and
disappeared from view.

"Gone! and you made me miss him!" he cried, much vexed.

"Shut up about your fish and get out of the way!" stormed the man on the
horse. "Am I to be held up here all day by a mere boy?"

"Excuse me, but I have as much right on this bridge as you," answered
the boy, looking the man straight in the eyes.

"Have you indeed?"

"I have."

"Perhaps you think yourself of just as much importance as a surgeon in
the army, on an important mission."

"I didn't say that. I said I had just as much right on this bridge as
you. It's a public bridge."

"Bah! get out of the way and let me pass. I've wasted time enough on
you." The man tugged nervously at his heavy mustache. "Which is the way
to Tanner's Mill?"

To this the youth made no reply. Gathering up his fishing rod and his
basket, he stepped to the river bank and prepared to