CASTLEMON'S WAR SERIES.

MARCY, THE REFUGEE

BY

HARRY CASTLEMON,

AUTHOR OF "GUNBOAT SERIES," "ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERIES," "SPORTSMAN'S CLUBSERIES," ETC., ETC.

Four Illustrations by Geo. G. White.

PHILADELPHIA:

PORTER & COATES.

COPYRIGHT, 1892,

BY PORTER & COATES.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. WHAT BROUGHT BEARDSLEY HOME, 1 II. ALLISON IS SURPRISED, 23 III. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP, 42 IV. VISITORS IN PLENTY, 66 V. MARCY'S RASH WISH, 92 VI. THE WISH GRATIFIED, 116 VII. MARCY SPEAKS HIS MIND, 140 VIII. THE ARRIVAL OF THE FLEET, 164 IX. LOOKING FOR A PILOT, 190 X. BEARDSLEY IN TROUBLE, 214 XI. MARCY IN ACTION, 239 XII. HOME AGAIN, 264 XIII. A REBEL SOLDIER SPEAKS, 287 XIV. A YANKEE SCOUTING PARTY, 310 XV. MARCY SEES SOMEBODY, 340 XVI. A FRIEND IN GRAY, 361 XVII. MARCY TAKES TO THE SWAMP, 385 XVIII. CONCLUSION, 406

MARCY, THE REFUGEE.

CHAPTER I.

WHAT BROUGHT BEARDSLEY HOME.

In this story we take up once more the history of the exploits andadventures of our Union hero Marcy Gray, the North Carolina boy, whotried so hard and so unsuccessfully to be "True to his Colors." Marcy,as we know, was loyal to the old flag but he had had few opportunitiesto prove it, until he took his brother, Sailor Jack, out to the Federalblockading fleet in his little schooner Fairy Belle, to give him achance to enlist in the navy. That was by far the most dangerousundertaking in which Marcy had ever engaged, and at the time of which wewrite, he had not seen the beginning of the trouble it was destined tobring him. Not only was he liable to be overhauled by the Confederateswhen he attempted to pass their forts at Plymouth and Roanoke Island,but he was in danger of being shot to pieces by the watchful steamlaunches of the Union fleet that had of late taken to patrolling thecoast. But he came through without any very serious mishaps, andreturned to his home to find the plantation in an uproar, and his motherin a most anxious frame of mind.

Although Marcy Gray was a good pilot for that part of the coast, andknew all its little bays and out-of-the-way inlets as well as he knewthe road from his home to the post-office, his older brother Jack wasthe real sailor of the family. He made his living on the water. At thetime we first brought him to the notice of the reader he had been at seafor more than two years, and it was while he was on his way home thathis vessel, the Sabine, fell into the hands of Captain Semmes, who hadjust begun his piratical career in the Confederate steamer Sumter.But, fortunately for Jack, Semmes was not as vigilant in those days ashe afterward became. He gave

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