eleven o'clock at night
Give us the same show you ask for your boat . '' `` Well , I 've never seen any of your work -- except these drawings , '' replied Mr. Pollard , indicating some sheets that lay on the table before them . The chums had succeeded in making the inventor 's acquaintance through the aid of the landlord . It was now eleven o'clock at night . Jack and Hal had been in the inventor 's room for the last three hours . Benson had done most of the talking , though Hal had now and then put in some effective words . David Pollard was now thirty years of age , tall , lean and of pallid countenance .