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Half the crew snatched a little sleep. For several hours more the issue hung aggravatingly in equilibrium. Then, with the opening of the channel into Stearn's Bayou the heaviest pressure was relieved. For the moment the acute danger point was passed. Orde spent the next two days in strengthening the defences. The men were able to take their quota of meals and of sleep.
"Close call," said Orde briefly. "Bet you," replied Marsh. Neither referred to the tug's escape; but to the fortunate closing of the opening. Orde now took steps to deflect into the channel recently dredged to Stearn's Bayou the mass of the logs racing down stream from Redding. He estimated that he had still two hours or so in which to do the work.
"Oh, I ain't backing oudt," negatived Heinzman. "Not a bit." "Well, then, you know what to do," said Newmark, terminating the interview. Little by little the water went down. The pressure, already considerably relieved by the channel into Stearn's Bayou, slackened every hour. Orde, still half dazed with his long-delayed sleep, drove back along the marsh road to town.
Only the groaning, the heave and shrugging of the jam, and the low threatening gurgle of hurrying waters reminded the toil-weary men of the enemy's continued activity. Over beyond the rise of land that lay between the river and Stearn's Bayou could be seen the cloud of mingled smoke and steam that marked the activities of the dredge. For ten minutes they rested in the solace of tobacco.
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