The pause was filled up by the intonation of a pollard thorn a little way to windward, the breezes filtering through its unyielding twigs as through a strainer.
" If she comes out of there, " he said, " hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it's likely there'll be empty bunks in steerage and fo'c'sle" .
It was only next day, when Wainwright Island loomed to windward, close abeam, that Wolf Larsen opened his mouth in prophecy. He had attacked Johnson, been attacked by Leach, and had just finished whipping the pair of them.