six o'clock
`` Very well , '' said I ; `` if you will start with me for Sanpritchit at six o'clock to-morrow evening , I will pay you your price . '' I made this offer in the belief that , with ordinary good fortune , we could reach our destination before the Raynor yacht weighed anchor on Monday morning . Captain Jabez considered the matter . `` I am going to Sanpritchit on Monday , any way , '' said he ; `` and if you 're in such a hurry to be there the first thing in the morning , I 'd just as lieve sail to-morrow evening at six o'clock as not . '' It was not much after the hour at which some people in that part of the country , when they have a reason for it , still believe that Sunday comes to an end , that the grocery boat left her pier with Captain Jabez , Abner , Walkirk , and me on board . There was nothing at all exhilarating in this expedition . I wanted to go rapidly , and I knew we should go slowly .