about three o'clock
`` If possible , we must place this young scamp where that fellow Jasniff is , behind the bars . '' `` I wish they could arrest Haskers , too , '' sighed Dave . `` I do n't see how we can -- we have no charge against him , '' answered the manufacturer . It was about three o'clock when Roger and Phil came in . As my old readers know , the senator 's son and Dave 's sister were on unusually good terms with each other , and the greeting between them was very cordial . `` But I do n't like you for one thing , Roger , '' said Laura , half reproachfully . `` I do n't like this idea of Dave going off to look for that lost mine . ''