about noon
`` I 've got something a lot better on hand , Durkee , '' remarked Nat with a grin , rising from his chair , a plan having leaped full blown into his mind . `` Just stick along with me and you 'll get your man , all right . '' He went outside and called the men in with a revolver-shot and a trawl tub run to the masthead . It was about noon when they came in , and , after eating , three o'clock passed before they had finished dressing down . `` Any of you boys run across a dory from the _ Night Hawk ? _ '' asked Nat as the men came inboard with their shower of fish . `` Yes , '' said a youth , `` I f ` und one of 'em an ' he told me the _ Hawk 's _ luck was Jonahed this trip . ''