nearly five o'clock
To compensate for the apparent lack of effect of liquor upon him , the inward disturbance usually lasted long after the more tipsy seamen had slept around to clear heads . Today he lolled with his sneering face toward the weather beam , a figure upon whose privacy no one would care to trespass . The sound of the shots and the tale of the duel had neither one awakened in him any apparent interest . Through the long afternoon till nearly five o'clock he slouched by the fo ` c 's ` le . Then with a leisurely stretch he walked to the hatch , and peered down it . Wheeling about he scanned the deck craftily , looking at all the men in turn , before he descended the ladder . In the half-light below he paused again , and seemed to send his piercing glance into every bunk , from the forward to the after bulkhead .