seven o'clock
The fever which had been on her two days , and which , by a strong exercise of will , she had struggled against -- encouraged by the violent excitement of the occasion -- had attacked her at this supreme moment . Deathly pale and sick , she reeled to the side of the cabin . There was another shot , and a violent clashing of arms ; and Frere , leaving the miserable woman to her fate , leapt out on to the deck . At seven o'clock there had been also a commotion in the prison . The news of the fever had awoke in the convicts all that love of liberty which had but slumbered during the monotony of the earlier part of the voyage . Now that death menaced them , they longed fiercely for the chance of escape which seemed permitted to freemen . `` Let us get out ! ''