the hour
of twenty-two
And Mac will follow it , but it 'll niver take him near to the part of Rooshia he expects it to . Still , the record 's clear as far as he 's concerned ; I 've got it in the log . Mac 's a good lad , and I would n't have him get into trouble over this . '' * * * * * In the freighter 's cabin the chronometer was again approaching the hour of twenty-two ; for nearly twenty-four hours the ship had been on her plodding way . And , lacking the A.D.D. -- the Automatic Destination Detector -- and other refinements of instrumental installations of the passenger ships , Pilot O'Malley had to work out his position for himself . And where a faster craft would have driven through with scarcely a quiver , the big ship trembled with the buffets and suction of a wintry blast that drove dry snow like sand across the lookout glasses . The twelve thousand level was an unbroken cloud of snow -- a gray smother where the red ship 's blunt and rusty bow nosed through .