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So up the halyards went, and with them went a warning that

whoever jumped to loosen them would get a gaff-hook in his

breeches and be hauled down ignominiously.

This time when the log was hauled for the hour from three to four

in the afternoon it showed a total of seventeen knots, or a

fraction under twenty miles for the hour. And best of all, the

three flying schooners had come back five miles. By ten o'clock

that night Code judged they had come back five more, and knew

that the next day would bring the test.

They were not in over-deep water here, for the coast of Nova

Scotia is extended for miles out under the sea in excellent

fishing shoals and banks.

At Artimon Bank they switched their course to westward so as to

pass inside of Sable Island and round Cape Sable in the shoalest

water possible. Down across Western they roared, and almost to Le

Have before midnight came.