eight o'clock
`` Dr , Mead wishes to see you at once . '' `` Great Scott ! I 've overslept ! '' exclaimed Jack , as he jumped out of bed and saw it was after eight o'clock . `` No wonder , being up half the night . Tell Dr. Mead I 'm sorry and I 'll be right down , '' he went on . Jack almost made a record for dressing , and went to Dr. Mead 's office , where he found the same gathering that had confronted him the previous morning .