The cruiser will have the Grand-pere rock abeam within an hour, but, to make sure, two of you will climb the ridge and watch her movements.
The rest will load up every available inch of space with wood and water and food.

How can we win clear of Fernando Noronha without fuel?
It is a hundred to one that the launch would not steam twenty miles on her present coal supply.

Such as it is, we must keep it for an emergency, even if we are compelled to tear up the deck and dismantle the cabin." "Talks like a book!" snorted Coke, and some of the men grinned sheepishly.
Hozier was coolly reminding them of those vital things which frenzy had failed wholly to take into account.

Confidence was reborn in them.
They wanted to cheer this fearless young officer who seemed to forget nothing, but the island promontories were so close at hand that perforce they were dumb.
The simplicity of the project was its best recommendation.

Sailors themselves, the mind of the cruiser's commander was laid bare to them.
He would soon be convinced that the launch had passed him in the dark ere the search-light looked out over the sea.