four in the morning
I shall never forget the ride after Tish and how we felt when we failed to find her ; for there was no sign of her . The wind had come up , and , what with seeing Tish tied to that wretched canoe and sinking with it or shot through the head and lying dead in the bottom of it , we were about crazy . As we passed Island Eleven we could see the spy 's camp-fire and his tent , but no living person . At four in the morning we gave up and started back , heavy-hearted . What , therefore , was our surprise to find Tish sitting by the fire in her bathrobe , with a cup of tea in her lap and her feet in a foot-tub of hot water ! Considering all we had gone through and that we had obeyed orders exactly , she was distinctly unjust . Indeed , at first she quite refused to speak to any of us .