about ten o'clock
Zoeth could tend store and get along all right until they returned . The girl was not so certain of the getting along all right , but Mr. Hamilton as well as the Captain insisted , so she consented at last . The Boston trip was not exactly a novelty to her -- she had visited the city a number of times during the past few years -- but a holiday with Uncle Shad was always good fun . They took the early morning train and reached Boston about ten o'clock . Shadrach 's business in the city seemed to be of a rather vague nature this time . They called at the offices of two or three of his old friends -- ship-chandlers and marine outfitters on Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue -- and then the Captain , looking at his watch , announced that it was pretty nigh noontime and he cal ` lated they had better be cruisin ' up towards Pinckney Street . `` Got an errand up in that latitude , '' he added .