about ten o'clock
`` Oh , I do n't know , '' said Stedman , critically . `` Not more than two months , I should say . '' The consul rubbed his rheumatic leg and sighed , but said nothing . The Bradleys returned about ten o'clock , and came in very sheepishly . The consul had gone off to pay the boatmen who had brought them , and Albert in his absence assured the sailor 's that there was not the least danger of their being sent away . Then he turned into one of the beds , and Stedman took one in another room , leaving the room he had occupied heretofore for the consul . As he was saying good-night , Albert suggested that he had not yet told them how he came to be on a deserted island ; but Stedman only laughed and said that that was a long story , and that he would tell him all about it in the morning .