one o'clock
You shall take the middle watch to-morrow night if you like , but one can see with half an eye that you are not fit to be on the lookout to-night . I doubt if any of us could see as far as the length of the bowsprit . It is pretty nearly pitch dark ; there is not a star to be seen , and it looked to me , when I turned out before supper , as if we were going to have a storm . '' It was settled that Cyril was to take the first watch , and that the Captain should relieve him at one o'clock . At nine , the family went to bed . A quarter of an hour later , Cyril stole noiselessly from his attic down to John Wilkes 's room . The door had been left ajar , and the candle was still burning .