nine o’clock
`` Ai n't seen ' im since dinner , '' said the boy . `` I thought he was with you p ' raps . '' Sam shook his head , and finishing his tea went on deck with the cook , and gave himself up to all the delights of a quiet sprawl . Fatigued with their exertions , neither of them moved until nine o'clock , and then , with a farewell glance in the direction in which Dick might be expected to come , went below and turned in . They left the lamp burning , to the great satisfaction of Henry , who was reading , and , as ten o'clock struck somewhere in the town , exchanged anxious glances across the foc ' sle concerning Dick 's safety . Safe and warm in their bunks , it struck both of them that they had been perhaps a little bit selfish . Half an hour later Henry looked up suddenly as something soft leaped on to the deck above and came pattering towards the foc ' sle .