three o'clock
`` I can not tell you , my dear sir , how grateful I am to you for this . It would have pained me more than I can express , if Scip had suffered for doing a disinterested kindness to me . '' Early in the morning we were again on our way , and twelve o'clock found us seated at a dinner of bacon , corn-bread , and waffles , in the `` first hotel '' of Georgetown . The Charleston boat was to leave at three o'clock ; and , as soon as dinner was over , I sallied out to find Scip . After a half-hour 's search I found him on `` Shackelford 's wharf , '' engaged in loading a schooner bound for New York with a cargo of cotton and turpentine . He was delighted to see me , and when I had told him I was going home , and might never see him again , I took his hand warmly in mine , and said : `` Scip , I have heard of the disgrace that was near being put upon you on my account , and I feel deeply the disinterested service you did to me ; now , I _ can not _ go away without doing _ something _ for you -- showing you in _ some _ way that I appreciate and _ like _ you . '' `` I like 's _ you _ , massa , '' he replied , the tears coming to his eyes : `` I tuk ter you de bery fuss day I seed you , ` case , I s ` pose , '' and he wrung my hand till it ached : `` you pitied de pore brack man .