about noon
`` Then you are the people for me ? Was there a man hanged on board her or not , about sunset ? '' This question was put with so much interest , that Raoul cursed his interrogator in his heart ; imagining that he was burning with the wish to learn his own execution . He was also now aware that this was he boat which had left the Proserpine about noon . `` I can tell you there was not , s ` nore -- if that will gladden your heart . A man was all _ ready _ to be hanged , when Captain Cuffe was pleased to order him taken down . '' `` Just as three heavy guns were fired up at town -- was it not so ? ''