ten o'clock
`` It is only Dickory , '' whispered the voice . Then she put her head near him and was glad enough to have put her arms around his neck . `` I have heard a great deal more , '' whispered Dickory ; `` these men are dreadful . They do not know what keeps your father , although they have suspicions which I could not make out ; but if he does not come on board by ten o'clock they will sail without him , and without his cash-box . '' `` And what of me ? '' she almost cried , `` what of me ? '' `` They will take you with them , '' said he ; `` that 's the only thing for them to do .