Two o'clock
`` This is a nice scrape I have got into , '' he thought , when he tried to climb back onto the limb from which he had slipped , but found it impossible . `` I ca n't get back , and I do n't see how I am to go on . I hope it will let me down easy . '' `` Two o'clock , '' said Rand , closing his watch with a snap . `` An hour behind time . '' The boys had been waiting at the great oak since just after noon , but Pepper had not yet come . `` Perhaps he got off the road and got lost in the woods , '' suggested Jack .