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Another quartermaster succeeded the man at the wheel, theand pricked the chart, the usual routine was

proceeded with Mayo continued at the , head out-thrust, except

when he glanced at chart or compass or noted the dials which marked the

screws' revolutions

Every now and then he put his ear to the subnal receiver

At last he heard the faint, far throb of the Sow and Pigs submarine

bell--seven strokes, with the four seconds' interval, then the seven

strokes repeated

A bit later he got, sweet and low as an elfland horn, the lightship's

chime whistle It was dead ahead, which was not exactly to his

calculation The tide set had served stronger than he had reckoned He

ordered the helmsman to ease her off a half-point, in order tofor the turn into Vineyard Sound

Well up in the sound the bell of Tarpaulin Cove reassured hireat reed horn of Nobska

uttering its triple hoot like a giant owl perched somewhere in the

on, sir"