twelve o'clock
`` ` You 'll like it less 'n I do , ' I says , ` if she gets up here with that club ! ' `` That kind of sobered him down again , and we got to planning . After a spell , we decided that our only chance was to sneak down to the schooner in the dark and put to sea , leaving Lobelia alone in her glory . `` Well , we waited till twelve o'clock or so and then we crept down to the beach , tiptoeing past the shanty for fear of waking Lobelia . We got on the schooner all right , hauled up anchor , h ` isted sail and stood out of the lagoon with a fair wind . When we was fairly to sea we shook hands . `` ` Lawd ! '