noon
Hansen 'll have rockers made that 'll catch the big stuff . If the worst comes to the worst , we 'll load up the old hooker with the pay dirt an ' wash it out on the way home . I 'll strip that beach down to bedrock if I have to work the toes an ' fingers off 'em . '' By noon the schooner was glazed in as firmly as a toy model that is mounted in a glass sea . The wind blew itself entirely out , but the current bore them steadily on to the clamorous shore , where the swells were creating promontories , bays , cliffs and chasms in the piled-up confusion of the floes pounding on the rocks , breaking up or sliding atop one another in noisy confusion . The marble-whiteness of the ice masses was set off by the blues and soft violets of their shadows , and by a pearly sheen wherever the planes caught the light at a proper slant for the play of prisms . Beautiful as it was , the sight was fearful to Rainey , in common with the crew .