nine o'clock at night before
The hero of three styles , Dickson , Goddedaal , or Carthew , must be the owner of a lively -- or a loaded -- conscience , and the reflection recalled to me the photograph found on board the _ Flying Scud _ ; just such a man , I reasoned , would be capable of just such starts and crises , and I inclined to think that Goddedaal -LRB- of Carthew -RRB- was the mainspring of the mystery . One thing was plain : as long as the _ Tempest _ was in reach , I must make the acquaintance of both Sebright and the doctor . To this end , I excused myself with Mr. Fowler , returned to Honolulu , and passed the remainder of the day hanging vainly round the cool verandahs of the hotel . It was near nine o'clock at night before I was rewarded . `` That is the gentleman you were asking for , '' said the clerk . I beheld a man in tweeds , of an incomparable languor of demeanour , and carrying a cane with genteel effort . From the name , I had looked to find a sort of Viking and young ruler of the battle and the tempest ; and I was the more disappointed , and not a little alarmed , to come face to face with this impracticable type .