two o'clock
`` At what time did you say that the ` Pollard ' was due to be back , Mr. Farnum ? '' `` At two o'clock , '' replied the owner of the boat-building yard at the little seaport town of Dunhaven . `` It 's within five minutes of that hour , now . '' `` So it is , '' nodded the owner of the yard , after briefly consulting his watch . For half an hour , or a little longer , a middle aged man , with the world of business and large affairs imprinted on him , had been walking to and fro along the shore end of the yard .