six o'clock
` I lay I 'd get some a ' me own back out of 'em . ' The others laughed , and Harlow was about to make some reply but at that moment a cyclist appeared coming down the hill from the direction of the job . It was Nimrod , so they resumed their journey once more and presently Hunter shot past on his machine without taking any notice of them ... When they arrived they found that Rushton had not been there at all , but Nimrod had . Crass said that he had kicked up no end of a row because they had not called at the yard at six o'clock that morning for the ladder , instead of going for it after breakfast -- making two journeys instead of one , and he had also been ratty because the big gable had not been started the first thing that morning . They carried the ladder into the garden and laid it on the ground along the side of the house where the gable was . A brick wall about eight feet high separated the grounds of ` The Refuge ' from those of the premises next door . Between this wall and the side wall of the house was a space about six feet wide and this space formed a kind of alley or lane or passage along the side of the house .