eight in the morning
what made you take such exact notice of the time , may I ask ? '' the officer went on , curiously , though plainly interested . `` We are compelled to make a memorandum of our stoppings . The conditions of the race forbid any boat to be moving south before eight in the morning , or after four in the afternoon . So I can show you in my notebook how an exact record is kept of such things . It will be figured on when the race is decided . We are going by stations you see , Captain , that are about two hundred miles apart .