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"TO-MORROW".
The rest came to-morrow.

When the Antoine struck the sunken iceberg she was not more than one hundred and twenty miles from the coast of Gaspe.
She had not struck it full on, or she would have crumpled up, but had struck and glanced, mounting the berg, and sliding away with a small gaping wound in her side, broken internally where she had been weakest.
Her condition was one of extreme danger, and the captain was by no means sure that he could make the land.

If a storm or a heavy sea came on, they were doomed.
As it was, with all hands at the pumps the water gained on her, and she moaned and creaked and ached her way into the night with no surety that she would show a funnel to the light of another day.

Passengers and crew alike worked, and the few boats were got ready to lower away when the worst should come to the worst.