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  CONTENTS

  PageCHAPTER 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

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