midday
It was all so sudden . The only thing I could have sworn to from the first was that he had purposely left me in the lurch that day . I pieced out the rest in the next few days , which I 'll just finish with as shortly as I can . Bartels came aboard next morning , and though it was blowing hard still we managed to shift the _ Dulcibella _ to a place where she dried safely at the midday low water , and we could get at her rudder . The lower screw-plate on the stern post had wrenched out , and we botched it up roughly as a makeshift . There were other little breakages , but nothing to matter , and the loss of the jib was nothing , as I had two spare ones . The dinghy was past repair just then , and I lashed it on deck .