He had often a book in his hand, it is true, but Juan Lepe the physician knew what he strove to keep from others, that the gout that at times threatened crippling was upon him and was easier to bear lying down.
Sunset, vesper prayer and _Salve Regina_.

As the strains died, there became evident a lingering on the part of the seamen.

The master spoke to the Admiral.

"They've found out about the needle, sir! Perhaps you'd better hear them and answer them." Almost every day he heard them and answered them.

To make his seamen, however they groaned and grumbled and plotted, yet abide him and his purpose was a day-after-day arising task! "Now," he said equably, in the tone almost of a father, "What is it to-day, men ?" The throng worked and put forward a spokesman, who looked from the Admiral to the clear north.