about two o'clock
`` I 'll get you out . Wait . '' And then there were no more voices . It was about two o'clock when Hubert had entered the gorge . It was after three when his father had roused him , and made his vain effort to save him . Hubert was now left alone with the rising tide , whose waters rolled forward with fearful rapidity . The beach inside was nearly level and he saw that in an hour or so it would be covered with the waters .