ten minutes past eleven
Fear not , Baas , I do not drink beer when I am on guard . '' `` Beer or water , I wish you would keep your wife at a distance , '' answered Leonard ; `` come , tell her to be off . '' Then he looked at his watch , the hands of which he could just distinguish by the distant glare of the torch , and went to sleep again . This took place at ten minutes past eleven . When he awoke again dawn was breaking and Otter was calling to him in a loud , hoarse voice . `` Baas , '' he said , `` come here , Baas . '' Leonard jumped up and ran to him , to find the dwarf on his feet and staring vacantly at the wall against which Soa had been sitting .