three o'clock
David made up his mind that it must be the Firepan , and he could feel his pulse quicken as he started up it with Baree . He must be quite near to Tavish 's cabin , if it had not been destroyed . Even if it had been burned on account of the plague that had infested it , he would surely discover the charred ruins of it . It was three o'clock when he started up the creek , and he was -- inwardly -- much agitated . He grew more and more positive that he was close to the end of his adventure . He would soon come upon life -- human life . And then ?