2:13
Neither Golden Beard nor Ali Baba noticed the incident ; the latter was busy connecting the three cylinders with coils of wire ; the former , deeply interested , followed the operation for a moment or two , then walking over to the trunk , he lifted from it a curious little clock with two dials and set it on the railed shelf of glass above the washstand . `` Karl , haf you ship 's time ? '' Ali Baba paused to fish out his watch , and the two compared timepieces . Then Golden Beard wound the clock , set the hands of one dial at the time indicated by their watches ; set the hands of the other dial at 2:13 ; and Ali Baba , carrying a reel of copper wire from the bed to the washstand , fastened one end of it to the mechanism of the clock . Golden Beard turned sharply on Ilse Dumont : `` I said go on deck ! Did you not understand ? '' The girl replied steadily : `` I understood that we had abandoned this idea for a better one . ''