eight in the morning
`` Lay to it ! '' he cried to his men . `` Pull to the _ Searcher _ . '' At half-past eight in the morning they were again on board of the ship , having been absent a little more than three hours . To Mont the captain was more difficult to understand than ever . He had risked his own life to save that of a poor Indian whom he had never seen before , and was never likely to see again . This showed that he could not have a bad heart .