noon
He baled when it was his turn , cheerfully , and slept be times , so that I envied him his carelessness and trust in us . The wind wore round to the northwest at its last and hardest , and then sank quickly . On the third morning we were in bright sunshine , and the sea was going down fast , and again we were heading east , with a half hope of making some landfall in Norway , if anywhere . At noon we shared the last loaf in just such a calm as had fallen on us at first ; and at last Bertric and I might sleep again , leaving Dalfin to keep watch . We might be in the track of vessels from Norway westward and southward , but we could not tell , and maybe we expected him to see nothing . But it may tell how wearied we were that we left so untried a landsman to watch for us , though , indeed , either of us would wake with the least uneasiness of the boat in a rising wind . So we slept a great sleep , and it was not until near sunset that Dalfin roused us .