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`` I 'm very sorry ; but I do n't think we should gain anything by starting now , '' added Lawry . Finding it was useless to insist any longer , the party took supper , and turned in , when their anger had partially subsided . The little captain did not retire that night ; he `` planked the deck , '' and watched the weather . It was a seven hours ' run to Burlington , and the `` trot '' was to come off at nine o'clock in the forenoon . He still hoped that he should be able to satisfy his unreasonable party . At midnight the wind chopped round to the westward , and blew the fog over . At one o'clock the _ Woodville _ was going up the river at full speed .