one o'clock
`` Pick up any ship that may not have heard the message . Come , boys , '' this last to Frank and Jack . The boys followed their commander back to the bridge ; thence to his cabin . The interchange of messages had taken time , and glancing at his watch now , Frank saw that it was after one o'clock . `` Great Scott ! '' he exclaimed . `` I had no idea we had been in the wireless room so long . ''