There was a lull in the eager talking of the men, and the
knot of captain and officers on the bridge stood still and
Alister roared through the wind into my ear — " Bide a
wee, the moonll be out again."

I waited, and the cloud passed from her face' or she
sailed from beneath it, and at the same instant I saw a
streak of light upon the water in which a black object
bobbed up and down as the porpoises had bobbed, and
kU the men burst out again, and a crowd rushed up on to
the forecastle.
** It's half a mile aft."—" A bit of wreck,"—" An old



I90 WE AND THE WORLD.
