ten o'clock in the morning
And he remembered . The _ Bonne Vierge _ was one of the two boats whose loss had been announced in the telegrams posted up at Newhaven . Employed in the coasting-trade between the north and west of France , she had sunk at a spot which lay in a direct line between Calais and Le Havre ; and Simon saw in this a positive proof that he was still following the French coast , passing those seamarks whose names he now recalled : the Ridin de Dieppe , the Bassure de Baas , the Vergoyer and so on . It was ten o'clock in the morning . From the average pace which he had maintained , allowing for deviation and for hilly ground , Simon calculated that he had covered a distance of nearly forty miles as the crow flies and that he ought to find himself approximately on a level with Le Touquet . `` What am I risking if I push on ? '' he asked himself .