two in the afternoon
`` If it was my boat I should chance it to-morrow before the weather blows up . '' Weeks drummed his fists on the table and agreed . On the morrow the Admiral headed north for the Great Fisher Bank , and the fleet followed , with the exception of the _ Willing Mind _ . The _ Willing Mind _ lagged along in the rear without her topsails till about half-past two in the afternoon , when Captain Weeks became suddenly alert . He bore away till he was right before the wind , hoisted every scrap of sail he could carry , rigged out a spinnaker with his balloon fore-sail , and made a clean run for the coast of Denmark . Deakin explained the manoeuvre to Duncan . `` The old man 's goin ' poachin ' .