about twelve o'clock
The vessel was carrying only a hundred cabin passengers from Bremen ; but in the steerage there were four hundred human beings . Frederick von Kammacher , to whom , the day before , the _ Roland _ had been non-existent , telegraphed from Paris to have a cabin on it reserved for him . Haste was imperative . After receiving notification from the company that the cabin was being held , he had only an hour and a half in which to catch the express that would bring him to Havre at about twelve o'clock . From Havre he crossed to Southampton , spending the night in a bunk in one of those wretched saloons in which a number of persons are herded together . But he managed to sleep the whole time , and the crossing went without incident . At dawn he was on deck watching England 's ghostly coast-line draw nearer and nearer , until finally the steamer entered the port of Southampton , where he was to await the _ Roland _ .