one o'clock in the morning
He was still not sure , he declared to himself in warning . But he was sure enough to risk the great move -- the move which he alone could make ! He should no doubt have been dreaming of Joan Whitworth and fitting her into the frame of that August night . But he had not thought of her by one o'clock in the morning ; and by one o'clock in the morning his motor-car had come to a stop on the deserted quay of Tarragona harbour under the stern of an English yacht . At six o'clock on the second morning after Hillyard 's visit to Barcelona , the steam-yacht _ Dragonfly _ swept round the point of La Dragonera and changed her course to the south-east . She steamed with a following breeze over a sea of darkest sapphire which broke in sparkling cascades of white and gold against the rocky creeks and promontories on the ship 's port side . Peasants working on the green terraces above the rocks stopped their work and stared as the blue ensign with the Union Jack in the corner broke out from the flagstaff at the stern .