ten o'clock
`` Are there not women to save in this house ? '' Miss Ruth overhears him and draws me aside , and , putting her hand upon my arm winningly , she lifts her pretty face to mine and says , `` Jasper , you will save them ! '' I am going ashore , and Captain Nepeen goes with me . _ At ten o'clock . _ We put off a boat at ten o'clock and rowed straight for the open beach . It was a gloriously clear night , with a heaven of blazing stars and a sea like flowing silver . The ship 's boats made so many black shapes , like ocean drift in the pools of light ; and Czerny 's yacht , speaking of that dread Presence , lay as an evil omen in the anchorage to the northward .