eight o'clock
What a different voyage from the one he had just taken , when happy and careless he was returning to the home he had left so full of peace and comfort ! What a load he bears back with him , as he makes his tedious way across the miles that separate him from the means of vengeance he burns to reach ! But at last he arrives , tells his story , the police at other cities are at once telegraphed , and the city marshal follows Wagner to Boston . At eight o'clock that evening comes the steamer Mayflower to the Shoals , with all the officers on board . They land and make investigations at Smutty-Nose , then come here to Appledore and examine Maren , and , when everything is done , steam back to Portsmouth , which they reach at three o'clock in the morning . After all are gone and his awful day 's work is finished at last , poor John comes back to Maren , and kneeling by the side of her bed , he is utterly overpowered with what he has passed through ; he is shaken with sobs as he cries , `` Oh , Maren , Maren , it is too much , too much ! I can not bear it ! ''