twelve o'clock
` Went this morning . ' `` ` That be hanged ! ' says Ben . ` All I know is that I got a despatch from him at Newport on Monday afternoon , telling me to have the yacht abreast this town at twelve o'clock to-night , 'cause he was coming off to her then in his launch with a friend . Friend ! ' And he laughed and winked his starboard eye . `` I did n't say much , being too busy thinking , but Ben went on telling about other cruises with ` friends . '