noon
The bridge was free territory . Ingigerd was usually to be seen there in the daytime playing chess with Wendler , or looking on while Frederick won one game after the other from the engineer . Naturally enough , the entire crew , by no means exclusive of Captain Butor , felt profound satisfaction because of the booty they had recovered on the high seas , each wearing an air of evident pride in the catch . Had the exalted feelings that swelled the hearts of all on board the gallant freight coach , the _ Hamburg _ , been transferred into od-rays , the steamer would have sailed up New York Harbour surrounded , even at high noon , by an aureole of its own radiance . There was betting as to the number of the pilot-boat that would come to meet the _ Hamburg _ , when suddenly it appeared hard by , with the number `` 25 '' decipherable on its sail . Arthur Stoss had won . Almost choking with laughter , he raked in a considerable sum , and Jacob Fleischmann envied him with comically obvious greed .