Dixon experienced a return of the ill feeling he'd had some minutes before.

He had some minutes to wait, and he lighted his pipe and began to pace the platform unencumbered.

As the "Grigsby" was heading in toward the shoal, and had some minutes still to go, Darrin asked:

"After you, uncle," said William, sounding rather more serene than he had some minutes earlier.

"Not much fear of that," said the novice, looking at his watch, and, finding that he had some minutes to spare, sitting down opposite Skene.