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Captain Breaker watched the Tallahatchie with the most earnest / attention; and it was not five minutes after he had given out the new / course before she changed her direction, though not to the south, but / enough to carry her clear of the Passes of the Mississippi. Paul Vapoor / was still crowding the engine to the utmost that could be done with / safety, and he spent no little of his time in the fire room, personally / directing the men in the work of feeding the furnaces.
It was evident to the commander that his ship was gaining on the / Tallahatchie, at least a knot an hour, as he estimated it, and the chase / could not now be more than four miles distant. This was within the range / of her Armstrong gun, if it was of the calibre reported by Bokes, whose / information was mere hearsay, and was open to many doubts.