midnight
By ten o'clock that night Code judged they had come back five more , and knew that the next day would bring the test . They were not in over-deep water here , for the coast of Nova Scotia is extended for miles out under the sea in excellent fishing shoals and banks . At Artimon Bank they switched their course to westward so as to pass inside of Sable Island and round Cape Sable in the shoalest water possible . Down across Western they roared , and almost to Le Have before midnight came . Now it is one thing to sail like the Flying Dutchman with the sun up and one 's eyes to use , but it is another to career through the night without taking in a stitch of canvas , trusting to luck and the Providence that watches over fishermen that the compass is good and that no blundering coasters will get in the way . When dawn broke wild and dirty , the _ Charming Lass _ was reeling through the water less than a quarter of a mile astern of the _ Rosan _ and the _ Herring Bone _ . Through the murk Code could see the _ Nettie B. _ three miles ahead .