five in the morning
She appeared quite heart-broken over the discovery , but recovered her spirits by coiling down tackles and halyards and all stray ropes . Then there were meals to be cooked in the galley , beds to make , Wolf Larsen to be attended upon , and she finished the day with a grand house-cleaning attack upon the cabin and steerage . All night I steered , without relief , the wind slowly and steadily increasing and the sea rising . At five in the morning Maud brought me hot coffee and biscuits she had baked , and at seven a substantial and piping hot breakfast put new lift into me . Throughout the day , and as slowly and steadily as ever , the wind increased . It impressed one with its sullen determination to blow , and blow harder , and keep on blowing . And still the _ Ghost _ foamed along , racing off the miles till I was certain she was making at least eleven knots .