eight o'clock
`` It could n't be better . The business will be easier than I expected . Let us get back to the schooner . At eight o'clock one of the boats will put you ashore with five men . '' `` Yes , five men will do , '' said Captain Spade . `` There will be enough of them to effect our object even if the keeper is aroused and it becomes necessary to put him out of the way . '' `` Put him out of the way -- well , if it becomes absolutely necessary of course you must , but it would be better to seize him too and bring him aboard the _ Ebba _ Who knows but what he has already learned a part of Roch 's secret ? ''