noon
`` Wait till morning , Jem , and I hope we shall get justice done to us . '' `` Then they 'll have to do it sharp , for it 's morning now , though it 's so dark down here , and I thought we were moving ; ca n't you feel ? '' Jem was quite right ; the sloop was under weigh . Morning had broken some time ; and at noon that day , the hope of being set at liberty was growing extremely small , for the ship was in full sail , and going due west . The first time the pressed men were mustered Don was well prepared . `` You leave it to me , Jem , '' he whispered . `` I 'll wait till our turn comes , and then I shall speak out to the officer and tell him how we 've been treated . ''