five o'clock in the afternoon
And when everything was ready , she slipped down to the Black Diamond coal bunkers and took on enough fuel to carry her to San Pedro ; after which she steamed across the bay to San Francisco and tied up at Fremont Street wharf . The cargo came down in boxes , variously labelled . There were `` agricultural implements , '' a `` cream separator , '' a `` windmill , '' and half a dozen `` sewing-machines , '' in addition to a considerable number of kegs alleged to contain nails . Most of it came down after five o'clock in the afternoon after the wharfinger had left the dock , and as nothing but a disordered brain would have suspected the steamer _ Maggie _ of an attempt to break the neutrality laws , the entire cargo was gotten aboard safely and without a jot of suspicion attaching to the vessel . When all was in readiness , Captain Scraggs incontinently `` fired '' his deckhand and engineer and inducted aboard a new crew , carefully selected for their filibuster virtues by Scab Johnny himself . Then while the new engineer got up steam , Captain Scraggs went up to Scab Johnny 's office for his final instructions and the balance of the first instalment due him . Briefly , his instructions were as follows : Upon arrival off Point Dume on the southern California coast , he was to stand in close to Dume Cove under cover of darkness and show two green lights on the masthead .