ten o'clock
BOTH commanding officers were asleep when the `` Grigsby '' and the `` Reed '' passed each other that morning , the `` Grigsby '' proceeding on to her station . Dave would have gone back on the same water route he had hunted over the day before , but the dirigible , which had reached England safely , had not yet been put in shape for further service , and there was at present no other dirigible that could be spared for his service . Therefore it was a matter of back to the shoals for temporary duty , yet of a kind that was very important . At ten o'clock he was called , as that was the hour he had named for relieving Lieutenant Fernald . The executive officer had come into the chart-room to call him , and remained while Darrin performed his hasty toilet . `` What 's the weather ? '' Darrin asked .