two
in the morning
`` We 'll break down at Pygang-Watai , where we can do good , '' was the answer , in a voice that did not allow argument . `` She 's my boat , and -- I 've had eight months to think in . '' No man saw the Haliotis depart , though many heard her . She left at two in the morning , having cut her moorings , and it was none of her crew 's pleasure that the engines should strike up a thundering half-seas-over chanty that echoed among the hills . Mr. Wardrop wiped away a tear as he listened to the new song . `` She 's gibberin ' -- she 's just gibberin ' , '' he whimpered . `` Yon 's the voice of a maniac . ''