four o'clock
She left me , alternately uplifted and sheepish . But that night I took a blanket and a pillow into the storeroom , and spread my six feet of length along the greatest diameter of a four-by-seven pantry . And that night , also , between six and seven bells , with the storm subsided and only a moderate sea , Schwartz , the second mate , went overboard -- went without a cry , without a sound . Singleton , relieving him at four o'clock , found his cap lying near starboard , just forward of the after house . The helmsman and the two men in the lookout reported no sound of a struggle . The lookout had seen the light of his cigar on the forecastle-head at six bells -LRB- three o'clock -RRB- . At seven bells he had walked back to the helmsman and commented cheerfully on the break in the weather .