ten o'clock
The divers measured the length of the wrecked hull , finding it to be close to three hundred feet . They reported , too , that scores of German dead lay in the wreckage . For hours nothing more happened . Just before ten o'clock that night the mine-sweeper 's blinkers signalled a call to the `` Grigsby , '' then about four miles distant . `` They 've found something , '' Darrin chuckled , when he reached the bridge on a call from Lieutenant Fernald . As the `` Grigsby '' was heading in toward the shoal , and had some minutes still to go , Darrin asked : `` Mr. Fernald , you had a second and even more thorough inspection of the hull made , as I directed ? '' `` Yes , sir ; and found the hull so secure that I did not wake you to tell you , sir .