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The wind from the southward seemed to be increasing in force, though it / was not yet what old salts would call any thing more than half a gale, / and hardly that; but the long-boat from the Leopard made bad weather of / it, and rolled wildly in the trough of the sea. The soldiers pulled / badly, for they had had no training in the use of the oars, and very / little experience.
The boat had made very little progress towards the Bellevite, and / Christy was in no hurry to put his plan in operation. He showed his / revolver to Percy, and then restored it to his hip-pocket. But he / watched the expression of his companion in the pilot-house very closely; / for, as the case then stood, one of them belonged to the blue, while the / other was of the gray. But Percy's patriotism was hardly skin deep, and / he had already spoken freely enough to make himself understood.