eleven P.M.
`` I can . '' ' `` Xactly ? '' `` Yes , exactly , for it happened that I was a little later than I promised , and the skipper pointed to his watch , as I came up the side , and jocularly shook his head at me . It was exactly eleven P.M. '' `` Sure and sartin o ' that ? '' enquired the captain , earnestly . `` Quite , and his watch must have been right , for the town-clock rung the hour at the same time . '' `` Is that skipper alive ? ''