Two o'clock
It might not clear for two or three days . By degrees his strokes lost their force , until the oars were barely dipping . The boat was going astern fast . Two o'clock . Long ere this Jim and Budge must have returned from trawling and realized that the pea-pod and its occupants were lost . They were probably searching for them now , perhaps miles away on the other side of the island , wherever it might be . A gruff bark startled them .