I have no fear of aught more." I helped her forward, and she thanked me, saying that now she would be at rest in her mind.

And, indeed, so were we all, for that penthouse, and its awesome tenant, had weighed on us more than we had cared to say.

We would clear the decks of it all in the morning.
All that night long we floated on a windless sea, and the fog hemmed us round until it began to thin and lift with the first rays of the rising sun.

But the night had no more visions for me, and with the morning I was fresh and fit for aught, after a great swim in the still water, and breakfast.
Then we set to work and cleared away the penthouse, stowing its heavy timbers beneath the deck along the keel, for they would in some degree take the place of the ballast which the little ship needed.

There was some water in her bilge from the great wave, and that we baled out easily, but she was well framed and almost new.
It was good to see the run of the decks clear again from that unhandy barrier.
I think that Gerda waited till all was gone, and we were wondering how best to stow all the goods which lumbered the deck.