nine o'clock before
`` The captain is well sprung with sour mash , '' says Corkey to himself . `` We 're going to take these choppers to Thunder Bay to-night , '' says the captain with an oath . Supper is set in the after-cabin . It is nine o'clock before the engine moves . There are few at table . After supper Corkey and Lockwin enter the forward cabin and take a sofa that sits across the little room . The sea is rough , but the motion of the boat is least felt at this place .