one o'clock
The captain sat on a chair at the forrard end of the house , smoking a cigar , and occasionally searching the woods with his binoculars . There was a stack of loaded rifles beside him , and a keg of dynamite with a loose lid to it . Some of the sticks had touch-and-go fuses to them , ready to throw if they tried boarding ; and sometimes he would take out his watch and look at it hard , and every time he looked the people in the waist would set up a kind of a wail . At one o'clock we ran up Filipo , Afiola 's brother , and settled down to another spell of waiting . Somewheres along of three bells we saw them getting a boat out by Pita 's house , and lo and behold ! it was Tweedie , with the native pastor and a divinity student named Henry to pull him . When they were close enough to talk , he fell on his knees in the boat , though it was half full of bilge and slopped all over him ; and he besought Captain Coe , by all that was holy , to stop murdering the innocent , and rattled on fast and scolding like he was in the pulpit .