About ten o'clock
The other six they sent ashore again , bearing letters to Castell 's friends , agents , and reeves , as to the transfer of his business and the care of his lands , houses , and other properties during his absence . Also , they took a short will duly signed by Castell and witnessed , wherein he left all his goods of whatever sort that remained unsettled or undevised , to Margaret and Peter , or the survivor of them , or their heirs , or failing these , for the purpose of founding a hospital for the poor . Then these men bade them farewell and departed , very heavy at heart , just as the anchor was hauled home , and the sails began to draw in the stiff morning breeze . About ten o'clock they rounded the Nore bank safely , and here spoke a fishing-boat , who told them that more than six hours before they had seen the _ San Antonio _ sail past them down Channel , and noted two women standing on her deck , holding each other 's hands and gazing shorewards . Then , knowing that there was no mistake , there being nothing more that they could do , worn out with grief and journeying , they ate some food and went to their cabin to sleep . As he laid him down Peter remembered that at this very hour he should have been in church taking Margaret as his bride -- Margaret , who was now in the power of the Spaniard -- and swore a great and bitter oath that d'Aguilar should pay him back for all this shame and agony . Indeed , could his enemy have seen the look on Peter 's face he might well have been afraid , for this Peter was an ill man to cross , and had no forgiving heart ; also , his wrong was deep .