six o'clock
` I have tried every way , ' he said , ` to see if we could work this secretly ; but 't is not to be done without the privity of the man who keeps the well , and even with his help it is not easy . He is a man I do not trust , but have been forced to tell him there is treasure hidden in the well , yet without saying where it lies or how to get it . He promises to let us search the well , taking one-third the value of all we find , for his share ; for I said not that thou and I were one at heart , but only that there was a boy who had the key , and claimed an equal third with both of us . Tomorrow we must be up betimes , and at the Castle gates by six o'clock for him to let us in . And thou shalt not be carter any more , but mason 's boy , and I a mason , for I have got coats in the house , brushes and trowels and lime-bucket , and we are going to Carisbrooke to plaster up a weak patch in this same well-side . ' Elzevir had thought carefully over this plan , and when we left the Bugle next morning we were better masons in our splashed clothes than ever we had been farm servants . I carried a bucket and a brush , and Elzevir a plasterer 's hammer and a coil of stout twine over his arm .