about midnight
She 's gone . '' `` We expected that . Any idea which way ? '' `` I talked to a sponge fisher who came by a while back , sir , and he said a schooner yacht sailed about midnight , or maybe later ; north , he said . But she car n't have got far , as there has n't been hardly any air stirring all night till this little one now . If it was n't so heavy off there we might see her , I farncy . The mate 's aloft , sir . ''