four o'clock in
the morning
Donald began to think he understood why the captain did not wish it to be known that he was on Long Island the night before . But the outrage had been committed in Lincolnville , which bordered the western arm of Penobscot Bay . It was three miles from the main land to the island . If the captain was in Lincolnville in `` the dead of night , '' on a criminal errand , what was he doing near Seal Harbor , where the Juno was aground , at four o'clock in the morning ? If he was the guilty party , he would naturally desire to get home before daylight . The wind was fair for him to do so , and there was enough of it to enable the Juno to make the run in less than two hours . It did not seem probable , therefore , that the captain had gone over to the other side of the bay , three miles off his course .