noon
We all own shares in her -- in the bark herself , I mean -- we Rogerses and Gibsons . I 've a twentieth part myself in pickle against the time I 'm twenty-one , '' and he laughed , meaning that his guardian held that investment for him -- and a very good slice of fortune his holdings in the old Scarboro proved to be , at the end of the voyage . But now we were at the beginning of it -- all the romance and adventure was ahead of us . Before noon I was not sorry to be aboard of the bigger craft and looked with equanimity upon my own bonny sloop stowed amidships . The wind had wheeled again and coming abaft , the bark shot on into the southward , trying to outrun the gale . Had I not been picked up as I was I might have been swamped in the Wavecrest . For a week , or more , we ran steadily toward the tropics , and in all that time we passed -- and that distantly -- but two steam vessels and only one sailing craft .