about noon
she asked , with irritation . `` Hold on , wo n't you ! and I 'll tell you . I was pickin ' up nets off Saucelito about noon , when I was hailed by one of them Vigilance tugs , and they set me to stand off and on the shore and watch that Marion did n't get away , while they were scoutin ' inland . Ye see THE DUEL TOOK PLACE JUST OVER THE BLUFF THERE -- BEHIND YE -- and they allowed that Marion had struck away north for Mendocino to take ship there . For after overhaulin ' his second 's boat , they found out that they had come away from Saucelito ALONE . But they sent a tug around by sea to Mendocino to head him off there , while they 're closin ' in around him inland .