about ten o'clock
`` If he does n't take her off before I sail , that 's his business . If I am obliged to leave port without his cash-box , I will marry his daughter and become his son-in-law -- I do n't doubt we can find a parson among all the rascals on board -- then , perhaps , he will think it his duty to send me drafts to the different ports I touch at . '' At this good joke , both of them laughed . `` But I do n't want to go without his cash-box , '' continued Big Sam , `` and I will wait until high-tide , which will be about ten o'clock . It would be unsafe to miss that , for I must not be here to-morrow morning . But the long-boat will be here soon . I told Roger to wait until half-past nine , and then to come aboard with old Bonnet or without him , if he did n't show himself by that time . ''