twelve o'clock
`` I supposed the persons who bailed her out set her adrift . The casks were all knocked out from under the guards , and they are scattered all along the shore . '' `` Before my men left her last night , I went all over the boat to satisfy myself that everything was right . I examined the cables very carefully , and I am sure they were well stoppered at twelve o'clock , when we went on shore . '' `` I fastened the cable myself , and I do n't think she could have broken loose herself . '' Ben Wilford listened in sullen silence to this conversation , and his mother could hardly keep from crying as she thought of the guilt of her oldest son . She was not willing to tell Lawry what his brother had done , fearful that his indignation would produce a quarrel where brotherly love should prevail .