seven o’clock
One small cargo had been run , but the revenue people were so sharp that the French lugger had given up making the village a landing-place . John Mugby and his two sons had been drowned , and John Hawkins 's boat had been smashed up . As a result of the decline of smuggling there had been a revulsion of the feeling against Will , and the four men who had been the ringleaders in the movement had made themselves so generally obnoxious that they had had to leave the village . At seven o'clock Will said : `` Now , father , I must be moving . Here are fifty guineas . They will last you for nearly a year . I 'll hand another fifty to Mr. Archer , and ask him to send you twenty pounds at a time .