midnight
`` You might take some medicines along , and some bandages , '' said Nellie . `` Take a bottle of sweet oil and some flour , '' put in Grace . `` They are both good for burns . '' The matter was talked over until midnight , and then it was settled that Dick , Tom , and old Jerry should take the largest rowboat and some bandages and medicines and row over to the vicinity of the fire . They were to land on the beach below what was left of the wreck and crawl through the bushes on a tour of discovery . If they found that they were not absolutely needed , they were to return without making their presence known to the mutineers and Dan Baxter . The two boys and the old sailor were soon on the way .