midnight
had he not with his own hands scuttled that schooner in which she was ? had he not found her asleep in her cabin as he prepared to leave ? had he not felt the water close up to the deck before he left the sinking yacht ? had he not been in that boat on the dark midnight sea for a long time before the mutinous crew would consent to row away , so near to the vessel that any noise would have necessarily come to his ears ? He had . How , then , was this ? That yacht _ must _ have gone down , and she _ must _ have gone down with it -- drowned in her cabin , suffocated there by the waters , without power to make one cry .