three o'clock Monday afternoon
`` I 'll be disappointed if it is n't good news , '' responded the Kentuckian , `` but do n't you worry about that . We 're going anyway . You see your father right away and he 'll begin to plan your outfit . We 're going to leave , the airship with us I hope , at three o'clock Monday afternoon . '' It was half past nine when the oil prospector reached the Grant home . The evening there had been one resembling preparations for a funeral . Colonel Howell 's offer had fallen on the Grant family with no sign of joy in anyone except the son .