They rushed it, and officers came out alone and worked on it.

She was afloat in the boat on the water with the moonlight on it.

They had drifted up onto the beach and if nothing were done about them sooner or later the crew of the Magic would come along the shore in a rowboat, spot the logs, drive an iron spike with a ring on it into the end of each one and then tow them out into the lake to make a new boom.