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The Snapper was quite a small craft, and looked like an old vessel; for / she was a side-wheeler, though she had evidently been built for a / sea-going craft. Whether Flanger had escaped from the Bellevite after / being transferred to her from the Bronx, or had been regularly exchanged / as a prisoner of war, Christy had no means of knowing. It made little / difference; he was in Nassau, and he was thirsting for revenge against / him.
The young officer did not feel that the brutal wretch had any reasonable / cause to complain of him, and especially no right to revenge himself for / an injury received while his assailant was the aggressor. He had done / his duty to his country. He had been compelled to act promptly; and he / had not aimed his revolver particularly at the nose of his dangerous / assailant. Flanger was engaged in a foolhardy enterprise; and the / mutilation of his nasal member had resulted very naturally from his / folly.