8:50
`` I will be when the 8:50 gets in and the goods are checked up , '' replied Dave . `` The train is a few minutes late tonight . '' There being no one else at the office , except the night manager and two clerks , Dick and Reade felt that they would not be in the way if they waited for Dave . Twenty minutes later the wagon drove up with the packages and cases that had arrived on the 8:50 train . `` You two can give a hand , if you like , '' invited Dave , as the packages were being passed up to the counter , checked and taken care of . Prescott and Reade pitched in , working with a will . `` Here , do n't shoot this box through as fast as you 've done the others , '' counseled Dick , as he picked up a small box , some eighteen inches long and about a foot square at the end .