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 to make the best of the situation. He and the operator settled themselves in the wireless station to smoke and chat away the hours, interrupting the occupation to snatch a bite to eat and, ever and anon, to inspect the prospects out of doors and the condition of the barometer. Amid the howling wind and the rain, they sat till the tempest that evening had spent its force. By ten o'clock things looked vastly more promising.

At this hour, Hardy learned to his great delight that a tug, weathering the blast on the Sound side of the Kitty Hawk bar, was about to put out for Roanoke Island and then proceed to Knott's Island and he found that he could get accommodations for the voyage over.