We paid a price for our victory, though it wasn't too high, and tomorrow we'll see what St.Luc will do.

'Tis altogether possible that we may have a naval fight." "It's so, Dave, but this is a fine deed you and Daganoweda and your men have done." "Nothing more than you would have done, Rogers, if you had been in our place." They spoke in ordinary tones, being men too much hardened to danger and mighty tasks to show emotion.

Robert stood under the same inverted boat that sheltered them, and he heard their words in a kind of daze, his brain still benumbed after the long and terrible test.

But it was a pleasant numbing, a provision of nature, a sort of rest that was akin to sleep.
The storm had not abated a particle.

Wind and rain roared across Andiatarocte and along the slopes and over the mountains.