ten o'clock
WE must take the reader back to the old jail , and continue our scene from where we left little Tommy spreading the Captain 's present before the imprisoned stewards , whose grateful thanks were showered upon the head of the bestower . Kindness , be it ever so small , to a man in prison , is like the golden rays of the rising sun lighting up the opening day . They all partook of the refreshments provided for them with grateful spirits . It was near ten o'clock when Daley came to announce that it was time to close the prison , and all strangers must withdraw . Tommy had insisted upon stopping with Manuel during the night . This man Daley was a proverbial drunkard , a tyrant in the exercise of his `` little brief authority , '' and a notorious -- . Singular as it may seem , considering his position , he would quarrel with the men for a glass of whiskey , had given the jailer more trouble than any other man , and been several times confined in the cells for his incorrigible vices .