To one or two inquiries as to the fulfilment of his promise Andrius made no more answer than a reassuring nod; once when Vickers pressed him, he replied curtly that the day was not yet over.

Vickers drew Copplestone aside on hearing that.
"Look here!" he said.

"I've been reckoning things up as near as I can.

I make out that we've been running due north, or north-east ever since we left Scarhaven last night.

I reckon, too, that this vessel makes quite twenty-two or three, knots an hour.