ten o'clock
`` We are in a big hurry . '' A line was thrown out and made fast , and in a few minutes the houseboat was freed from the sunken tree . Then steamboat and houseboat swung around and the journey to Baraville was begun . It did not take long , and by half-past ten o'clock the _ Dora _ was tied up at the town levee , much to the astonishment of many colored folks who had never seen such a craft . The Rovers ' first movement was to ask if the launch had stopped there , and from a colored riverman they learned that the _ Venus _ had come in very early in the morning and had left again after those on board had gotten breakfast and a box of things -- what the negro did not know . `` I heah dem folks talk erbout New Orleans , '' said the colored man . `` I dun ` spect da gone dat way fo ' certainly , I do ! ''