midnight
`` I really ought to send the bill to Martell . '' `` Well , just wait first and see if we get any fun out of this , '' answered the joke-loving cousin . As was to be expected , there was far from a full night 's sleep coming to the Rover boys that night . The quarters were strange to them , and there was more or less noise throughout the school building , a bunch of scholars coming in on a late train and not getting settled down until after midnight . There was also something of horseplay , although the majority of the cadets were too tired from their journeys to be very active . `` I suppose we 'll have to stand some hazing and all that sort of thing later on , '' remarked Jack before retiring . About one o'clock the school seemed to settle down , and then one after another the Rover boys fell asleep , not to awaken until the autumn sun was showing well above the hills beyond Clearwater Lake .