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Throughout
the
day
,
and
as
slowly
and
steadily
as
ever
,
the
wind
increased
.
It
impressed
one
with
its
sullen
determination
to
blow
,
and
blow
harder
,
and
keep
on
blowing
.
And
still
the
Ghost
foamed
along
,
racing
off
the
miles
till
I
was
certain
she
was
making
at
least
eleven
knots
.
It
was
too
good
to
lose
,
but
by
nightfall
I
was
exhausted
.
Though
in
splendid
physical
trim
,
a
thirty-six-hour
trick
at
the
wheel
was
the
limit
of
my
endurance
.
Besides
,
Maud
begged
me
to
heave
to
,
and
I
knew
,
if
the
wind
and
sea
increased
at
the
same
rate
during
the
night
,
that
it
would
soon
be
impossible
to
heave
to
.
So
,
as
twilight
deepened
,
gladly
and
at
the
same
time
reluctantly
,
I
brought
the
Ghost
up
on
the
wind
.
But
I
had
not
reckoned
upon
the
colossal
task
the
reefing
of
three
sails
meant
for
one
man
.
While
running
away
from
the
wind
I
had
not
appreciated
its
force
,
but
when
we
ceased
to
run
I
learned
to
my
sorrow
,
and
well-nigh
to
my
despair
,
how
fiercely
it
was
really
blowing
.
The
wind
balked
my
every
effort
,
ripping
the
canvas
out
of
my
hands
and
in
an
instant
undoing
what
I
had
gained
by
ten
minutes
of
severest
struggle
.
At
eight
o'clock
I
had
succeeded
only
in
putting
the
second
reef
into
the
foresail
.
At
eleven
o'clock
I
was
no
farther
along
.
Blood
dripped
from
every
finger-end
,
while
the
nails
were
broken
to
the
quick
.
From
pain
and
sheer
exhaustion
I
wept
in
the
darkness
,
secretly
,
so
that
Maud
should
not
know
.
Then
,
in
desperation
,
I
abandoned
the
attempt
to
reef
the
mainsail
and
resolved
to
try
the
experiment
of
heaving
to
under
the
close-reefed
foresail
.
Three
hours
more
were
required
to
gasket
the
mainsail
and
jib
,
and
at
two
in
the
morning
,
nearly
dead
,
the
life
almost
buffeted
and
worked
out
of
me
,
I
had
barely
sufficient
consciousness
to
know
the
experiment
was
a
success
.
The
close-reefed
foresail
worked
.
The
Ghost
clung
on
close
to
the
wind
and
betrayed
no
inclination
to
fall
off
broadside
to
the
trough
.
I
was
famished
,
but
Maud
tried
vainly
to
get
me
to
eat
.
I
dozed
with
my
mouth
full
of
food
.
I
would
fall
asleep
in
the
act
of
carrying
food
to
my
mouth
and
waken
in
torment
to
find
the
act
yet
uncompleted
.
So
sleepily
helpless
was
I
that
she
was
compelled
to
hold
me
in
my
chair
to
prevent
my
being
flung
to
the
floor
by
the
violent
pitching
of
the
schooner
.
Of
the
passage
from
the
galley
to
the
cabin
I
knew
nothing
.
It
was
a
sleep-walker
Maud
guided
and
supported
.
In
fact
,
I
was
aware
of
nothing
till
I
awoke
,
how
long
after
I
could
not
imagine
,
in
my
bunk
with
my
boots
off
.
It
was
dark
.
I
was
stiff
and
lame
,
and
cried
out
with
pain
when
the
bed-clothes
touched
my
poor
finger-ends
.
Morning
had
evidently
not
come
,
so
I
closed
my
eyes
and
went
to
sleep
again
.
I
did
not
know
it
,
but
I
had
slept
the
clock
around
and
it
was
night
again
.
Once
more
I
woke
,
troubled
because
I
could
sleep
no
better
.
I
struck
a
match
and
looked
at
my
watch
.
It
marked
midnight
.
And
I
had
not
left
the
deck
until
three
!
I
should
have
been
puzzled
had
I
not
guessed
the
solution
.
No
wonder
I
was
sleeping
brokenly
.
I
had
slept
twenty-one
hours
.
I
listened
for
a
while
to
the
behaviour
of
the
Ghost
,
to
the
pounding
of
the
seas
and
the
muffled
roar
of
the
wind
on
deck
,
and
then
turned
over
on
my
ride
and
slept
peacefully
until
morning
.
When
I
arose
at
seven
I
saw
no
sign
of
Maud
and
concluded
she
was
in
the
galley
preparing
breakfast
.
On
deck
I
found
the
Ghost
doing
splendidly
under
her
patch
of
canvas
.
But
in
the
galley
,
though
a
fire
was
burning
and
water
boiling
,
I
found
no
Maud
.
