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‘Commodore, dear,’ he said some moments later, ‘would you know when the moon rises tonight?’

Stephen spent much of his time aloft, at the topmast cross-trees. With practice he had grown used to the climb to the maintop, though nobody liked to see him make the attempt, however smooth the calm; and he asserted that he could certainly rise even higher, to the cross-trees, with perfect safety. This however was never countenanced, and Jack required John Daniel to accompany the Doctor if ever he showed an inclination to view anything from a greater height than the carriage of a bow-chaser.

...and went below himself, ludicrously walking on tiptoe. In the cabin - the bed-place - that they had shared for so many years, he found Stephen, not dead asleep - far from it - but writing.