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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: was her owner, but there it stopped, no matter with how solemn a face he
inspected each part of her, or spoke of her details; he was as much a
passenger on her as myself; and this was as plain on the equally solemn
faces of his crew, from the sailing-master down through the two
quartermasters to the five deck-hands, as was the color of the Hermana's
stack, which was, of course, yellow. She was a pole-mast, schooner-rigged
steam yacht, Charley accurately told me, with clipper bow and spiked
bowsprit.
"About a hundred tons?" I inquired.
"Yes. A hundred feet long, beam twenty feet, and she draws twelve feet,"
said Charley; and I thought I detected the mate listening to him.
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