"Ah knew it!" exclaimed the black. "Ah knew dat ol' clock couldn't be wrong, but Mistah Sun he suah gone hay wire."
Gridley grinned. "I'll drop down and have a little walk," he said. "I'll be back in fifteen minutes. Have you seen anything of Lord Greystoke?"
"No suh, Ah ain't seen nothin' o' Massa Ta'zan sence yesterday."
"I wondered," said Gridley; "he is not in his cabin."
For fifteen minutes Gridley walked briskly about in the vicinity of the ship. When he returned to the mess room he found Zuppner and Dorf awaiting breakfast and greeted them with a pleasant "good morning."
"I don't know whether it's good morning or good evening," said Zuppner.
"We have been here twelve hours," said Dorf, "and it is just the same time that it was when we arrived. I have been on watch for the last four hours and if it hadn't been for the chronometer I could not swear that I had been on fifteen minutes or that I had not been on a week."
"It certainly induces a feeling of unreality that is hard to explain," said Gridley.
"Where is Greystoke?" asked Zuppner. "He is usually an early riser."
"I was just asking Bob," said Gridley, "but he has not seen him."