I shall be pretty hungry by that time, I expect, in spite of the biscuits." Meldon carried out his plan successfully for the first part of the morning.

He arranged the biscuits, his tobacco pouch, and a box of matches in convenient places; laid down a life-buoy as a pillow, and stretched himself at full length on the deck.

After a time he shut his eyes, so that no insistent vision of the _Spindrift's_ rigging should interrupt the working of his thought.

At half-past eleven he was hailed from the shore.

He raised himself slightly, and, leaning on his elbow, looked over the gunwale of the yacht.