about noon
It was four o'clock in the morning , the cruiser had been out nine hours , and the captain dotted the chart where he believed she was at that moment . `` She has made all the easting necessary , and by this time she has laid her course about south-west , '' continued the commander . `` Captain Rombold will not hurry his ship , for he has no occasion to do so , and he will naturally save his coal . If our calculations are correct , we shall see the Dornoch about noon to-day ; '' and he pointed to the conjunction of the two courses as he had drawn them on a diagram . `` That is all ; and we had better turn in . '' A sharp lookout was maintained during the hours of the morning watch , for the conjectures and calculations of the captain might prove to be all wrong . It was possible that the Dornoch had proceeded directly to the southward , after making less easting than was anticipated .