six o'clock
Petrak worked with a cloth on the brass-knob , and he was loafing without a doubt . I suspected that he was afraid I was waiting for him to go away , so that I might go up the ladder to the bridge . One of the men who had brought Meeker 's organ aboard had the wheel , a long , lanky cockney he was , from what I could see of him through the window of the pilot-house . We were well clear of the ships at anchor outside the breakwater when four bells -- six o'clock -- struck , and Harris came up and went on the bridge , passing without apparently seeing me . He growled something to Petrak , and the red-headed man went toward the forecastle . `` Time for Rajah to have the bell going , '' said Riggs as he descended to the hurricane-deck and greeted me affably . `` What do you say to going below and seeing what 's on the table ? ''