four o'clock
` All right , I will . You 're a good sort , Huish . I did n't take to you at first , but I guess you 're right enough . Let 's open another bottle , ' said the captain ; and that day , perhaps because he was excited by the quarrel , he drank more recklessly , and by four o'clock was stretched insensible upon the locker . Herrick and Huish supped alone , one after the other , opposite his flushed and snorting body . And if the sight killed Herrick 's hunger , the isolation weighed so heavily on the clerk 's spirit , that he was scarce risen from table ere he was currying favour with his former comrade . Herrick was at the wheel when he approached , and Huish leaned confidentially across the binnacle .