nine o'clock
And when the parcel had sunk , he watched the widening circle upon the surface of the water till it died away . `` So much for James Wentworth , and the clothes he wore , '' he said to himself as he walked away . He slept that night at the village inn where he had spent the day , and the next morning walked into Southampton . It was a little after nine o'clock when he entered the docks , and the _ Electra _ was visible to the naked eye , steaming through the blue water under a cloudless summer sky . `` To-day I close a volume of the rough , careless , imperfect record which I have kept of my life . As I run my fingers through the pages of the limp morocco-covered volume , I almost wonder at my wasted labour ; -- the random notes , jotted down now and then , sometimes with long intervals between their dates , make such a mass of worthless literature . This diary-keeping is a very foolish habit , after all .