one o'clock
And with a savage flourish of the pannikin he put it to his lips and drained it . His sullen determination that we should stand or fall by my scheme was not very useful to me . I had looked for some shrewdness in him , some capacity of originating and weighing ideas ; but I found he could do little more than curse and swagger and ply his can , in which he found most of his anecdotes and recollections and not a little of his courage . I pulled out my watch , as I must call it , and observed that it was hard upon one o'clock . '' 'T is lucky , '' said he , eying the watch greedily and coming to it away from the great subject of our deliverance as though the sight of the fine gold thing with its jewelled letter extinguished every other thought in him , `` that you removed that watch from Mendoza . But he will have carried other good things to the bottom with him , I fear . '' `` His flask and tobacco-box I took away , '' said I. `` He had nothing of consequence besides . ''