six o'clock
Burns and I alternated at the forward companionway , and , although the men were divided into watches , the entire crew was on duty virtually all the time . I find , on consulting the book in which I recorded , beginning with that day , the incidents of the return voyage , that two things happened that evening . One was my interview with Singleton ; the other was my curious and depressing clash with Elsa Lee , on the deck that night . Turner being quiet and Burns on watch at the beginning of the second dog watch , six o'clock , I went forward to the room where Singleton was imprisoned . Burns gave me the key , and advised me to take a weapon . I did not , however , nor was it needed . The first mate was sitting on the edge of his bunk , in his attitude of the morning , his head in his hands .