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Chapter 27
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DAY BROKE, GRAY AND CHILL. The boat was close-hauled on a fresh breeze, and the compass indicated that it was making just the course that would bring it to Japan. Though stoutly1 mittened2, my fingers were cold, and they pained from the grip on the steering3-oar5. My feet were stinging from the bite of the frost, and I hoped fervently6 that the sun would shine.
Before me, in the bottom of the boat, lay Maud. She, at least, was warm, for under her and over her were thick blankets. The top one I had drawn7 over her face to shelter it from the night, so I could see nothing but the vague shape of her, and her light-brown hair, escaped from the covering and jeweled with moisture from the air.
Long I looked at her, dwelling8 upon that one visible bit of her as only a man would who deemed it the most precious thing in the world. So insistent9 was my gaze that at last she stirred under the blankets, the top fold was thrown back, and she smiled out on me, her eyes yet heavy with sleep.
'Good morning, Mr. Van Weyden,' she said. 'Have you sighted land yet?'
'No,' I answered, 'but we are approaching it at a rate of six miles an hour.'
She made a moue of disappointment.
'But that is equivalent to one hundred and forty-four miles in twenty-four hours,' I added reassuringly10.
Her face brightened. 'And how far have we to go?'
'Siberia lies off there,' I said, pointing to the west. 'But to the southwest, some six hundred miles, is Japan. If this wind should hold, we'll make it in five days.'
'If it storms? The boat could not live?'
She had a way of looking one in the eyes and demanding the truth, and thus she looked at me as she asked the question.
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leeward
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