twelve o'clock
I will wait for the answer from Madeira , but I am afraid my patience will never hold out until the others can come . It will be giving the schooner a fearfully long start as it is , and as you may suppose I shall be almost mad at having to wait and do nothing . '' The secretary wrote the three addresses , and , thanking him very warmly for his kindness and courtesy , Frank went out and despatched a telegram to the skipper , telling him to engage ten extra hands at once , and to buy muskets and cutlasses for the whole crew . `` I shall come down by the twelve o'clock train from town . Be at the steamboat pier to meet me . If all is ready , shall sail at once . '' Having despatched this , he drove at once to Lady Greendale 's , and told her that he had learnt that the craft in which Bertha had been carried off had sailed for the south , probably the Mediterranean , and that he should start that evening in pursuit .