The liberal skipper gave him another sovereign, adding that he need not say anything to any person about him and his servant.

Joseph was profuse in his expressions of gratitude, for with so much money in his pocket he need not go a-fishing again for a month or more, and protested with all his might that he would not mention them to anybody.
The night was dark enough to conceal the Eleuthera after she got away from the shore, but not so dark that the skipper could not find his way around the reefs to Hogfish Cut.

It was high tide, as it had been when they came inside of the rocks, and the boat went along quite briskly in the fresh west wind that was still blowing.

Without accident or incident of importance, though the wind was ahead a portion of the way, the boat reached the Cut at about midnight.

She stuck on a reef at this point, but very lightly, though it required half an hour or more to get her off.