Will you get my sextant and the chronometer up, Jack, and put them handy ?" Jack Harvey did as he was asked, but there was no occasion to use the instruments, for ten minutes later, Watkins, who was standing near the bow gazing fixedly ahead, shouted: "There's Guernsey, sir, on her lee bow, about six miles away, I should say." "That's it, sure enough," Tom agreed, as he gazed in the direction in which Watkins was pointing.

"There's a gleam of sunshine on it, or we shouldn't have seen it yet.

Yes, I think you are about right as to the distance.

Now let us take its bearings, we may lose it again directly." Having taken the bearings of the island they went below, and marked off their position on the chart, and they shaped their course for Cape Grosnez, the northwestern point of Jersey.

The gleam of sunshine was transient--the clouds closed in again overhead, darker and grayer than before.