ten o'clock
`` Why do n't you make yourself known , Mr Keene ? '' said Cross to me , in a whisper : `` I saw the master go on the quarterdeck just now . '' `` I think I had better not : there are more houses to examine , and if my trick was known , it would soon get wind from the women , and I should be waylaid , and perhaps murdered by the crimps . The captain will be on board by ten o'clock , I have no doubt , and then I will contrive to see him , somehow or another . '' `` But you could trust the master -- why not see him ? '' `` I 'll think of it -- but there 's no hurry . '' I was afraid that Tommy Dott would have discovered me , and I kept out of his way as much as I could .