about six o'clock
There was no rain . It was half-past nine , and half Llandudno was afoot on the Parade and discussing the storm -- a storm unparalleled , it seemed , in the month of August . At any rate , people who had visited Llandudno yearly for twenty-five years declared that never had they witnessed such a storm . The new lifeboat had gone forth , amid cheers , about six o'clock to a schooner in distress near Rhos , and at eight o'clock a second lifeboat -LRB- an old one which the new one had replaced and which had been bought for a floating warehouse by an aged fisherman -RRB- had departed to the rescue of a Norwegian barque , the _ Hjalmar _ , round the bend of the Little Orme . `` Let 's go on the pier , '' said Denry . `` It will be splendid . '' He was not an hour in the town , and yet was already hanging expense !