Thirteen minutes past one
A strange shudder went through Frederick . In his excitement it seemed to him that he had been honoured with a revelation . He took his memorandum book from the net bag over his berth and jotted down the date and hour that the remarkable chandler had mentioned as the time of his death . `` Thirteen minutes past one , '' he distinctly heard Rasmussen 's voice saying , `` thirteen minutes past one , on the twenty-fourth of January . '' The _ Roland _ was tossing slightly again , and the great siren was bellowing . Its repeated thunderous cries , which indicated fog , the lurching of the vessel , the sign , perhaps , of fresh storms and hardships to be gone through , vexed and fretted Frederick . From the adventurous doings in his brain , he was transported to the no less adventurous doings in reality .