two in the morning
And then it was that , in a sub-hold under the cargo deck , a more significant cargo was found . From that sub-hold were removed nearly six hundred floating mines of the commonest German pattern . All had been packed with extreme care , and all were ready for transferring to German submarine mine-layers at sea . It was after two in the morning when Captain Allaire , an officer of the British military intelligence department , came on board the `` Grigsby , '' requesting that her commander be called . Dave received Captain Allaire in the chart-room . Allaire had come to seek information as to the speech and conduct of the two women at the time of their arrest . Dave answered these questions carefully , then added : `` I shall be glad , indeed , if I brought in women prisoners of real importance along with the other prisoners . ''