nearly ten
o'clock
Ropes are the correct thing -- we must preserve the unities , as we say on the boards . '' We all said the duke was pretty smart , and there could n't be no trouble about running daytimes . We judged we could make miles enough that night to get out of the reach of the powwow we reckoned the duke 's work in the printing office was going to make in that little town ; then we could boom right along if we wanted to . We laid low and kept still , and never shoved out till nearly ten o'clock ; then we slid by , pretty wide away from the town , and did n't hoist our lantern till we was clear out of sight of it . When Jim called me to take the watch at four in the morning , he says : `` Huck , does you reck 'n we gwyne to run acrost any mo ' kings on dis trip ? '' `` No , '' I says , `` I reckon not . '' `` Well , '' says he , `` dat 's all right , den .