midnight
`` Jack , '' said Frank , `` you are kept to do better work than this , doubt not . But if the lot had fallen on you -- ay , if it had fallen on a three years ' child , I would have gone up as cheerfully with that child to lead me , as I do now with this my brother ! Amyas , can we have a boat , and a crew ? It is near midnight already . '' Amyas went on deck , and asked for six volunteers . Whosoever would come , Amyas would double out of his own purse any prize-money which might fall to that man 's share . One of the old Pelican 's crew , Simon Evans of Clovelly , stepped out at once .