eleven o’clock
Three days passed . Will still remained at the coast-guard station , and men still hovered near . Tom came over once and said that it had been decided among a number of the fishermen that no great harm should be done to Will when they got him , but that he should be thrashed within an inch of his life . On the third day the coxswain said to Will : `` I have a message this morning from the lieutenant , that he will be here by eleven o'clock . If you will write a line to your friend I will send it over by one of the men . '' Tom arrived breathless two minutes before the officer . `` My eye , I have had a run of it , '' he said .