about midnight
Phil and Han stretched themselves out at the bow , Steve , Joe , Harry and Tom Corwin and Cas Temple remained on the bridge deck and the rest of the company retired to the cockpit , from where , by looking along the after cabin roof , they had a satisfactory view of the course . Perhaps one or two of the boys did nod a little during the next two hours , but real slumber was far from the minds of any of them . The _ Adventurer _ was doing a good twenty miles an hour , the propeller lashing the water into a long foaming path that melted astern in the moonlight . Ossie busied himself in the galley about midnight and served hot coffee and bread-and-butter sandwiches . Only once was the _ Adventurer _ changed from her course , which Steve had laid for Gloucester , and then the light which had aroused their suspicions was soon seen to belong to a coasting schooner beating her way toward Boston . Of small boats there were none until , at about one o'clock , when the two white lights of Baker 's Island lay west by north and the red flash on Eastern Point showed almost dead ahead , Phil called from the bow . `` Steve , there 's something ahead that looks like a boat or a rock .