three A.M.
Coast patrol will also go out to-night . Will advise you personally in the morning . Have Dan send boat for men across thoroughfare to Stone Landing . If men not there by three A.M. , go to Possum Beach and wait . '' Bill still listened and the message was repeated , almost verbatim ; then silence . He communicated the information to Gus and old Dan , and the oysterman went off to tidy up his boat for the trip . Bill and Gus decided to snatch a little sleep .