six o'clock
We could hold a business meeting first and then feed our faces and talk over this Summer 's fun and have a jolly old time . What do you say ! Pass the sugar , Han . '' -LSB- Illustration : `` They offer you -- '' Mr. Hyatt leaned forward in the protesting chair -RSB- They said many things , but they were all in praise of the idea , and later the _ Follow Me 's _ contingent was quite as enthusiastic , and Steve , in his official capacity of Number One , finally found a calendar and solemnly announced that Saturday , the twenty-third day of December , was the date , that the hour was six o'clock , post meredian , and that the place would be decided on later . After which they all went ashore and passed the time until dinner in various ways . And at a little before two Steve , Joe and Wink once more climbed the narrow stairway to Lawyer Hyatt 's office . `` I have here , '' said Mr. Hyatt , when they had seated themselves and greetings had been exchanged and the weather duly and thoroughly disposed of , `` a telegram from Barrows and Leland , of Norfolk , Virginia , agents for the owners of the schooner _ Catspaw _ .