Then to the sailing-master he said,
“The wind is fair. Let the sail help the oars.”
When the two thus addressed were gone, he turned to the chief pilot.[2]
[2] Called rector.
“What service hast thou had?”
“Two-and-thirty years.”
“In what seas chiefly?”
“Between our Rome and the East.”
“Thou art the man I would have chosen.”
The tribune looked at his orders again.