I knew that my friend had succeeded in my education; that the romance of business, if our fantastic purchase merited the name, had at last stirred my dilletante nature; and, as we swept under cloudy Tamalpais and through the roaring narrows of the bay, the Yankee blood sang in my veins with suspense and exultation.
Outside the heads, as if to meet my desire, we found it blowing fresh from the northeast.

No time had been lost.

The sun was not yet up before the tug cast off the hawser, gave us a salute of three whistles, and turned homeward toward the coast, which now began to gleam along its margin with the earliest rays of day.

There was no other ship in view when the Norah Creina, lying over under all plain sail, began her long and lonely voyage to the wreck..