the sun at midnight
`` Tell your men to get their chests aboard . '' `` Mr. Goddedaal , turn the hands to to get the chests aboard , '' said Wicks . The four Currency Lasses had waited the while on tenter-hooks . This welcome news broke upon them like the sun at midnight ; and Hadden burst into a storm of tears , sobbing aloud as he heaved upon the tackle . But the work went none the less briskly forward ; chests , men , and bundles were got over the side with alacrity ; the boat was shoved off ; it moved out of the long shadow of the _ Flying Scud _ , and its bows were pointed at the passage . So much , then , was accomplished . The sham wreck had passed muster ; they were clear of her , they were safe away ; and the water widened between them and her damning evidences .