midnight
`` Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ... . The wills above be done , but I would fain die a dry death . '' -- TEMPEST . By midnight the _ Gem of the Ocean _ was well out in the Sound . A stiff breeze was now blowing , and the little craft was footing it at a rapid rate . Handy was now in his native element . He and his company felt that they had turned a clever trick .