eleven o'clock
The Consul is doing the necessary . '' `` Right , my boy , '' said Otway effusively . `` Now we 'll play a game or two at Johnny 's and have some fun with the girls . '' By eleven o'clock Mr. O'Donovan was comfortably half drunk , and Otway led him out on to the verandah to look at the harbour , shimmering under the starlight . They sat down on two cane lounges , and the supercargo 's keen eye saw that Revel 's schooner had gone . He breathed freely , and then brought Mr. O'Donovan a large whisky and soda . * * * * * In the morning Mr. O'Donovan and Mr. William Johns , the British Consul , were in a state of frenzy on discovering that Mr. and Mrs. Lacy had escaped during the night in the schooner _ Solafanua _ .