about eight o'clock in the morning
And so we went thitherward , although I had grave doubts as to whether Cap'n Jack had not returned . On looking over what I have just written , it has struck me that I have told this part of my story hastily , scarcely relating enough to tell how matters stood . I ought to have said that it took us fifteen hours to sail from St. Agnes Island to Hayle . Thus having left the island at daybreak -- that is , about eight o'clock in the morning -- we did not arrive at Hayle till the following midnight , and such was our difficulty in getting horses at Hayle , that we did not leave there until morning , thus arriving at Mullion just before noon . We were there , I should imagine , something over an hour , and as Porth Mullion is only some seven or eight miles from Kynance , I had hopes of getting to Captain Jack 's house an hour or two before dark . I discovered , too , that Tamsin had ridden from Kynance to Mullion on horseback . She had , in a fit of jealousy , betrayed our secret to Israel Barnicoat , and this had led to Naomi being taken away ; and anxious , so she said , to atone , she had come to Mullion to tell her story .