"You are right," he replied. "I will go into the cabin and take a rest and think over what you have told me. We have as yet plenty of time in which to act."
Ranson left me, and I joined Dibble, who was at work tarring some ropes.
It was not very agreeable work, but for the sake of being near him, and at the same time to please Captain Hannock, I lent a hand, and we spent the remainder of the day together.
"When shall we reach New Bedford?" I asked, as we were going to mess.
"Depends on the wind," was Dibble's reply. "If it holds out we may be there by to-morrow morning."
"So soon!"
"Might have been there before if it hadn't been for the storm. That knocked us clear out of our bearings."
My work had made me thoroughly tired, and, as a consequence, it did not take me long to get to sleep when once I was in my bunk.
"The captain wants to see you," said Crocker, as soon as I awoke in the morning.
"What about?"