Island. From here her course was for the Cape May lightship on the
New Jersey coast, and for some time she was out of sight of land.

So they sailed, day after day, ever southward, and towards the
warmth which was to make Mr. Elmer well again.

Although Mark was very ill all this time, Ruth was as bright and
well as though she were on land. This was very mortifying to her
brother; but "Captain Li," who went in to see him every day,
comforted him by telling him of old sailors he had known who were
always sea-sick for the first few days of every voyage they
undertook.

The schooner was off Cape Hatteras before Mark felt able to leave
his berth. At last, one evening when the sea was very quiet,
"Captain Li" said, "Come, Mark, I want you to turn out and go on
deck to see the last of Hatteras Light. You know Cape Hatteras is
one of the worst capes along our entire Atlantic coast, and is
probably the one most dreaded by sailors. When coming home from
the West Indies, they sing an old song which begins:

"'Now if the Bermudas let you pass,
Then look for Cape Hatteras.'"

Slowly dressing, with the captain's aid, Mark, feeling very weak,
but free from the horrible sickness from which he had suffered so
long, managed to get out on deck. He was astonished at the change
that one week's sailing southward had made in the general
appearance of things. When he was last on deck, it and the rigging
were covered with snow and ice. Now not a particle of either was