two o’clock
This rapid altercation was thus brought to an end by the formal interchange of the names of the disputants . On one of the cards was inscribed : _ Captain Hector Servadac , Staff Officer , Mostaganem . _ On the other was the title : _ Count Wassili Timascheff , On board the Schooner `` Dobryna . '' _ It did not take long to arrange that seconds should be appointed , who would meet in Mostaganem at two o'clock that day ; and the captain and the count were on the point of parting from each other , with a salute of punctilious courtesy , when Timascheff , as if struck by a sudden thought , said abruptly : `` Perhaps it would be better , captain , not to allow the real cause of this to transpire ? '' `` Far better , '' replied Servadac ; `` it is undesirable in every way for any names to be mentioned . '' `` In that case , however , '' continued the count , `` it will be necessary to assign an ostensible pretext of some kind . Shall we allege a musical dispute ?