"Is it better now?" Bob asked anxiously.
"Yes, in fact it's all gone. I took some aspirin and got to sleep again and the two knocked it."
He remained silent for fully two minutes after Bob had told him about the happenings during the night.
"I almost wish you had called me," he finally said.
"What would you have done, sir?" Jack asked.
"I don't know as I could have done any more than you two did. Of course we might have pounced in on him while he was sending but I don't know that it would have done any good. I suppose he would have had some plausible excuse and, on second thought, I guess it's just as well you didn't."
It was just after sundown when they again sighted land. In this latitude there is very little twilight and darkness comes very soon after the sun sinks below the horizon. So they had made but a short distance toward the distant island before it was blotted from their sight. But Captain Ole had the direction and, turning on the powerful searchlight, he kept on at full speed.
"We'll get near enough so that we can anchor for the night," he told them.
"At the rate you're going you want to be careful or you'll jump clear over it before you know it," Jack laughed.
"It looked to me, what I could see of it, as though it would be a pretty good jump," Bob smiled. "I'd say it's a fairly good sized island."