about eleven o'clock
in the morning
This spot was eventually found , in the shape of a tiny cove near Point Lucrecia ; and into it they steamed at daylight next morning , leaving it again the same evening , an hour before sunset , when the _ Thetis _ again showed as the trim , white-hulled English yacht , with all her boats bright varnished as of yore , neither yacht nor boats bearing the slightest trace of ever having been even remotely connected with the mysterious `` gunboat '' that had been seen by the fishermen to steam out of Sagua la Grande harbour . When at length , by the exercise of illimitable patience , Jack succeeded in persuading his friends to believe that their troubles were over , and had induced them to settle down in peace and comfort aboard the yacht , and also to ease their aching hearts by telling him what they had undergone since that day when they so blithely parted from him at the railway station at Havana , it was a really heartrending story of cruel oppression and shameful , irresponsible tyranny to which he felt himself obliged to listen . There is no need to give the full details here ; it is sufficient to simply state that upon their arrival at Bejucal , the first station beyond Santiago , they were accosted by a sergeant , who ordered them to leave the train , and who , with the assistance of a couple of files of soldiers , conveyed them back to Havana by goods train late that same night , marching them all off to La Jacoba prison about three o'clock the next morning , where each of them was confined in a separate cell . Later in the day -- that is to say , about eleven o'clock in the morning -- Don Hermoso was visited by a file of soldiers , who informed him that the governor demanded his presence , and roughly commanded him to follow them . Having obeyed this command , the Don presently found himself in a kind of office , and confronted with Alvaros , who ordered the two guards to leave him alone with their prisoner . Then , this having been done , Alvaros informed Don Hermoso that , in consequence of certain information supplied to the Government , his house had been searched during his absence , and sufficient treasonable correspondence found therein to send the entire family to the penal settlements for life . Next he reminded Don Hermoso that he had on a certain occasion paid him and his family the compliment of proposing for the hand of Dona Isolda , and that the Don had seen fit to reject the proposal with scorn and contumely ; yet such , he said , was his generous and forgiving nature that he was quite willing not only to overlook that affront , but also to secure the pardon of Don Hermoso and his family for their treason to the Spanish Government , if the said Don Hermoso would now withdraw his refusal and give his consent to his daughter 's marriage with him , Don Sebastian Alvaros , a scion of one of the most noble families in Old Spain .