Eleven o'clock
`` We 'll start without waste of time , '' resumed the captain . `` Lieutenant Stevenson , you may bring the prisoners aboard . '' Jim went ashore with the officer to notify his companions and prepare for this unforeseen journey . Eleven o'clock found the _ Pollux _ steaming west with her thirty-one additional passengers . The passage was uneventful and they were alongside the wharf in Portland early the next forenoon . Promptly at two came the hearing before the commissioner . It did not take long .