About two in the morning
`` If they did I question whether they could do much . They could n't hang three for the death of one . You would have to swing , and that 's about all . '' About two in the morning they saw a line of lights , which the fisherman informed them was from the town of Worthing . Again before daybreak they scudded past another and far brighter and larger area of twinkling points , which marked the position of Brighton . They were nearly half-way upon their journey already . As the dawn approached the dark storm-clouds gathered away to the northern horizon and lay in a great shadow over the coast .