about eight
o'clock
He begged the tugboat-captain to tell him what it looked like , and as the captain told him he filled it in and saw it as it really was . `` Perhaps they 'll bombard again to-morrow , '' he hazarded , hopefully . `` We ca n't tell till we see how they 're placed on the station , '' the captain answered . `` If there 's any firing we ought to hear it about eight o'clock to-morrow morning . We 'll hear 'em before we see 'em . '' Channing 's conscience began to tweak him . It was time , he thought , that Keating should be aroused and brought up to the reviving air of the sea , but when he reached the foot of the companion-ladder , he found that Keating was already awake and in the act of drawing the cork from a bottle .