about eleven o'clock
We could not help noticing her , for she was something out of the way . We should not have thought so much of it , if she had not come back again just before dusk the next day , and anchored a mile to the west . We kept a sharp lookout that night , thinking that she might be trying to smuggle some contraband ashore ; but everything was quiet , and next morning she was gone . The man who was on the watch said he thought that he made her out with his night glass going east at about eleven o'clock ; but it was a dark night , and it might have been a schooner yacht or a brig. '' `` You do n't happen to know whether she stopped at Ryde the first time she passed ? '' `` Yes ; having been all talking about her , we watched to see if she was going to anchor there or keep on to the east . She lowered a boat as she passed , and two men landed . They threw her up into the wind and waited until the boat came off again .