four o'clock
If he had -- but there ! he did n't . The fog had come almost without warning . When , after leaving the bank , at four o'clock or thereabouts , I walked down to the shore and pulled my skiff out to where the Comfort lay at her moorings , there had not been a sign of it . Now I was near the entrance of the bay , somewhere abreast Crow Point , and all about me was gray , wet blankness . Sitting in the stern of the little launch I could see perhaps a scant ten feet beyond the bow , no more . It was the sudden shift of the wind which had brought the fog .