A CONFIDENTIAL STEWARD The wind still came from the southward, and it was very light.

The sea was comparatively smooth, and the Bronx continued on her course.

At the last bi-hourly heaving of the log, she was making sixteen knots an hour.
The captain went into the engine room, where he found Mr.Gawl, one of the chief's two assistants, on duty.

This officer informed him that no effort had been made to increase the speed of the steamer, and that she was under no strain whatever.

The engine had been thoroughly overhauled, as well as every other part of the vessel, and every improvement that talent and experience suggested had been made.