Chapter Five.
A Watch in the Dark.
“You do sleep soundly,” said the young Italian merrily.
“Why, it’s morning, and I didn’t know I had been sleeping! Where’s Mr Brazier?”
“Forward yonder.”
“Why, we’re going on.”
“Yes; there’s a good wind, and we’ve been sailing away since before the sun rose.”
Rob jumped up and hurried out of the tent-like arrangement, to find Shaddy seated in the stern steering, and after a greeting Rob looked about him, entranced by the scenery and the wondrous tints of the dewy morning. Great patches of mist hung about here and there close under the banks where the wind did not catch them, and these were turned by the early morning’s sun to glorious opalescent masses, broken by brilliant patches of light.