five o'clock
The elder Schmicks wailed and boo-hooed and proclaimed to the topmost turrets that the sun would never shine again for either of them , and , to prove that she was quite in earnest about the matter , Gretel fell off the dock into the river and was nearly drowned before Jasper , Jr. , could dive in and get her . Their sons , both of whom cherished amorous feelings for Blake , sighed so prodigiously all the way down the river that the boat rocked . Incidentally , during the excitement , Jinko , who was to remain behind and journey westward later on with Mrs. Titus and Jasper , Jr. , succeeded after weeks of vain endeavour in smartly nipping the calf of Hawkes ' left leg , a feat of which he no doubt was proud but which sentenced my impressive butler to an everlasting dread of hydrophobia and a temporary limp . It was nearing five o'clock when the boat slipped into view around the tree-covered point of land and headed straight for our hiding place on the bank . I shall not stop here to describe the first stage of our journey through the narrow , rocky by-roads that ended eventually in the broad , alpine highway south and west of Vienna . Let it be sufficient to say that we jostled along for twelve or fifteen miles without special incident , although we were nervously anxious and apprehensive . Our guide book pointed , or rather twiddled , a route from the river flats into the hills , where we came up with the main road about eight o'clock .