ten o'clock
`` They 're getting things all wrong , but it does n't matter , and they seem to be enjoying it . Now then , Mr. Litchfield , I think you have cut all the bread that can possibly be eaten ! '' Mr. Burdette had gone on shore with the Captain , and Mr. Portman considered it his duty to remain on deck , but the volunteer corps of cooks and stewards did their work with hearty good-will , and the breakfast would have been the most jolly meal that they had yet enjoyed together if it had not been for the uncertainty and uneasiness naturally occasioned by the desertion of the crew . It was after ten o'clock when Captain Burke and Mr. Burdette returned . `` We 're in a bad fix , '' said the former , approaching Mrs. Cliff , who , with all the passengers , had been standing together watching them come down the pier . `` There was a steamer cleared from here the day before yesterday which was short-handed , and seems to have carried off all the available able seamen in the port . But I believe that is all stuff and nonsense !