“How far can you hear one of these fog-horns?”
“About a mile.”
“So they couldn’t have heard us?”
“Couldn’t have heard a note. No, sir. And that accounts for their silence.”
“Where does the current go to, after going round that island you speak of?”
“Wal, there’s a good many, but there’s two main currents: one goes round the island, and returns and jines the one that we come down by.”
“And if the boat came by that, it would be behind us.”
“Jes so.”
“About how far?”
“O, ten miles or more by this time.”