Eleven o’clock
On the morrow they went to London and waited there a while , but no word came from Jane Beach , and for good or ill the chains of the oath that he had taken riveted themselves around Leonard Outram 's neck . Within three months of this night the brothers were nearing the shores of Africa , the land of the Children of the Mist . `` What is the time , Leonard ? '' `` Eleven o'clock , Tom . '' `` Eleven -- already ? I shall go at dawn , Leonard . You remember Johnston died at dawn , and so did Askew . ''