Taken by the Enemy

[CONTENTS]

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[CHAPTER I.]
Astounding News from the Shore	13
[CHAPTER II.]
The Brother at the South	24
[CHAPTER III.]
Dangerous and Somewhat Irregular	35
[CHAPTER IV.]
The First Mission of the Bellevite	47
[CHAPTER V.]
The Bellevite and those on Board of her	58
[CHAPTER VI.]
Mr. Percy Pierson introduces himself	69
[CHAPTER VII.]
A Complication at Glenfield	80
[CHAPTER VIII.]
A Disconsolate Purchaser of Vessels	91
[CHAPTER IX.]
Christy matures a Promising Scheme	102
[CHAPTER X.]
The Attempt to pass into Mobile Bay	113
[CHAPTER XI.]
The Major in Command of Fort Gaines	124
[CHAPTER XII.]
How the Bellevite passed Fort Morgan	135
[CHAPTER XIII.]
A Decided Difference of Opinion	146
[CHAPTER XIV.]
The Blue and the Gray	157
[CHAPTER XV.]
Brother at War with Brother	168
[CHAPTER XVI.]
Christy finds himself a Prisoner	179
[CHAPTER XVII.]
Major Pierson is puzzled	190
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
The Morning Trip of the Leopard	201
[CHAPTER XIX.]
The Report of the Scout from the Shore	212
[CHAPTER XX.]
A Rebellion in the Pilot-House	223
[CHAPTER XXI.]
The Sick Captain of the Leopard	234
[CHAPTER XXII.]
The Proceedings on the Lower Deck	245
[CHAPTER XXIII.]
The Expedition from the Leopard	256
[CHAPTER XXIV.]
The Engineer goes into the Forecastle	267
[CHAPTER XXV.]
The First Lesson for a Sailor	278
[CHAPTER XXVI.]
The Post of Duty and of Danger	289
[CHAPTER XXVII.]
A Cannon-Ball through the Leopard	300
[CHAPTER XXVIII.]
The American Flag at the Fore	311
[CHAPTER XXIX.]
On Board of the Bellevite	322
[CHAPTER XXX.]
Running the Gantlet	333

[CHAPTER I]

ASTOUNDING NEWS FROM THE SHORE

"This is most astounding news!" exclaimed Captain Horatio Passford.

It was on the deck of the magnificent steam-yacht Bellevite, of which he was the owner; and with the newspaper, in which he had read only a few of the many head-lines, still in his hand, he rushed furiously across the deck, in a state of the most intense agitation.

It would take more than one figure to indicate the number of millions by which his vast wealth was measured, in the estimation of those who knew most about his affairs; and he was just returning from a winter cruise in his yacht.

His wife and son were on board; but his daughter had spent the winter at the South with her uncle, preferring this to a voyage at sea, being in rather delicate health, and the doctors thought a quiet residence in a genial climate was better for her.