three o'clock
`` Oh , of course nothing is really going to happen , '' laughed Hal . `` It is just the feeling that is over me . That 's all . '' It was fully three o'clock by the time Lieutenant Danvers decided they were far enough out to sea , and far enough from any craft in those waters . Not a stick or a stack of another vessel showed within ten miles of them . The scow was accordingly cast loose and allowed to drift . Captain Jack was at the tower wheel again , as Eph and the two sailors returned from setting the scow loose .