about one
o'clock
Cannondale lay to the south-east of Pine Island , and with the prevailing wind of the night , it was an easy matter to accomplish the two miles which lay between them . After a great deal of thinking , reasoning , and studying , I came to the conclusion that the Splash , and perhaps two or three of the four row-boats , -- for the conspirators had added one to our original number , -- were not farther off than Cannondale . The wind was still fresh from the north-west , and the traitors would hardly care to pull even a single boat eight miles . The steamer , on her way to Parkville , would touch at Cannondale about one o'clock , and I surmised that the deserters would return in her . I made up my mind , in view of these facts and suppositions , that it would be advisable for some of our party to visit Cannondale before one o'clock . Pine Island had sometimes been used as a picnic ground , and the people had been conveyed thither in a steamer . Near the south station , in the deepest water , there was a rude pier of logs built out , for the convenience of landing the parties .