noon
`` Amen ! '' said the Spaniard , crossing himself . She gave one awful lounge forward , and dived under the coming swell , hurling her crew into the eddies . Nothing but the point of her poop remained , and there stood the stern and steadfast Don , cap-a-pie in his glistening black armor , immovable as a man of iron , while over him the flag , which claimed the empire of both worlds , flaunted its gold aloft and upwards in the glare of the tropic noon . `` He shall not carry that flag to the devil with him ; I will have it yet , if I die for it ! '' said Will Cary , and rushed to the side to leap overboard , but Amyas stopped him . `` Let him die as he has lived , with honor . ''