"Well, I reckon he's gone for to-night whatever it was," Captain Ole said. "I'll stay up the rest of the night and the rest of you'd better get back to bed."
"Nuttin' uv the sort. I'll finish out me watch," Pat insisted.
"It'll be light now in about an hour and you'd better get a little sleep after that jolt," the captain told him.
But the mate refused to leave his trick and, after a little more arguing, it was decided that both the captain and the mate would stay up.
"He might come back and it'll take two to watch the boat securely in the darkness," Captain Ole said.
The boys went back to bed but were too excited to sleep and, after talking together for a while, they decided to get dressed and join the captain and Pat on deck.
"So you thought we might need protection, eh," Captain Ole laughed as they joined him on the bridge a few minutes later.
"Not that, sir, but we couldn't get to sleep again and it's mighty hot in there so we thought we might's well call it a night," Bob told him.
"Well, I'm mighty glad of your company anyhow."
The rest of the night passed without incident and, as soon as breakfast was over, the following morning, the anchorage of the Valkyrie was changed to a position about two hundred yards off the north end of the island. Here they found the water but a little more than five fathoms deep and it was then high tide.