eleven o'clock
I hope that a couple of years abroad will restore her . '' Braun handed the Captain fifty dollars . `` I have a five for your crew , '' he said , good humoredly , `` if we make a neat landing alongside . '' It was eleven o'clock when the stout tug ran alongside the ` Mesopotamia . ' The old ex-liner was an `` occasional '' now , and all ready to depart for Stettin . On Braun 's hail , a burly chief steward descended the companionway , with a half dozen assistants . In the pelting rain , Irma Gluyas , an unresisting bundle , was safely borne by willing arms to the bridal stateroom of the huge steamer , once the pride of the German merchant navy .