six o’clock
`` And all the rest were abetting , eh ? '' `` The rest of the fifteen were , sir . '' But the prosecutor , a glutton in his way , had thought he had bagged the whole forty-three . And so he ultimately did before the evening closed in , as most of the others were identified by other witnesses ; and when they could not actually be sworn to , the piracies were brought home to them by circumstantial evidence ; such , for instance , as having been captured on board of the craft we had taken , which again were identified as the very vessels which had plundered the merchantmen and murdered several of their crews , so that by six o'clock the jury had returned a verdict of Guilty -- and I believe there never was a juster -- against the whole of them . The finding , and sentence of death following thereupon , seemed not to create any strong effect upon the prisoners . They had all seen how the trial was going ; and , long before this , the bitterness of death seemed to be past . I could hear one of our boat 's crew , who was standing behind me , say to his neighbour , `` Why , Jem , surely he is in joke .