eight o'clock
`` Is the Russian inside ? '' asked Inspector Val of Steamboat Dan . `` I do n't know , '' returned Steamboat Dan . `` I 've been aboard the yacht since eight o'clock until twenty minutes ago . I came ashore in that skiff . Sure , he ought to be in the drain ; they 've been sending down the stuff for hours . '' `` I do n't find any of it about ? ''