three minutes past six
You have been leading us wrong , altogether . ' `` The black insisted that he was right , and that the fire must have been made by the black fellows . I did n't know what to make of it . It was two or three minutes past six ; and I noticed , when we halted before , that your watch was exactly with mine . So I said to the men : '' ` We will wait five minutes longer and , if we see no other smoke , you may be sure that that is made by Captain Whitney . ' `` We waited the five minutes , and then I gave the word to start , when one of the men exclaimed : '' ` The black fellow 's gone . ' `` Sure enough , he had slipped away without being noticed , while we were looking for the smoke .