About eight o'clock
exclaimed the coxswain . `` That will never do ! What time ? '' `` About eight o'clock , '' answered the waif , whose devotion to the truth did not prevent him from stating the time two hours later than the fact warranted . `` She may be two or three hours later . '' `` The squadron sails for Christiania to-morrow afternoon , '' added Sanford . `` The ship will be gone before we can get there . ''