eight o'clock
No seas broke on board . Without doubt the clumsy , big-footed , over-grown giant of a boy is overside and dead . The question is : did he go over of his own accord , or was he put over ? At eight o'clock Mr. Pike proceeded to interrogate the watches . He stood at the break of the poop , in the high place , leaning on the rail and gazing down at the crew assembled on the main deck beneath him . Man after man he questioned , and from each man came the one story . They knew no more about it than did we -- or so they averred .