about noon
Newton and his crew congratulated themselves upon their escape , and again shaped their course for the Channel . The wind would not allow them to keep clear of Ushant , and two days afterwards they made the French coast , near to that island . The next morning they had a slant of wind , which enabled them to lay her head up for Plymouth , and anticipated that in another twenty-four hours they would be in safety . Such , however , was not their good fortune ; about noon a schooner hove in sight to leeward , and it was soon ascertained to be the same vessel from which they had previously escaped . Before dusk she was close to them ; and Newton , aware of the impossibility of resistance , hove-to , as a signal of surrender . Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows . SHAKESPEARE .