Passford, in regard to your business on board of her?"
"I have a little affair on board of her, and my duty compels me to
demand her surrender as a prize to the Bronx."
"Caught again!" exclaimed Captain Lonley, stamping violently on the deck
in his disgust at his misfortune, and it was the third time that Christy
had thrown him "out of a job."
"The way of the transgressor is hard, Captain Lonley," added the
commander of the expedition.
"Transgressor, sir!" ejaculated the captain of the Havana. "What do you
mean by that, Mr. Passford?"
"Well, captain, you are in arms against the best government that the
good God ever permitted to exist for eighty odd years; and that is the
greatest transgression of which one can be guilty in a patriotic sense."
"I hold no allegiance to that government."
"So much the worse for you, Captain Lonley; but we will not talk
politics. Do you surrender?"
"This is not an armed steamer, and I have no force to resist; I am
compelled to surrender," replied the captain as he glanced at the
cutlasses of the men from the Bronx.
"That is a correct, though not a cheerful view of the question on
your part.
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