about eleven o'clock
` Let us push on , ' he replied , disregarding her comment . Lucy had experienced no difficulty in finding Jim . Since his visit to Boobyalla she had been three times to Jim Crow with parties on horseback , and knew the country well . They reached the mouth of the gorge at about eleven o'clock , and had ridden only about two hundred yards along the bed of the creek , when Yarra arose from a clump of scrub-ferns at Lucy 's side . ` Come longa me , ' he said . ` Boss Ryder plenty sick . ' Yarra had left the outlaw two hours earlier .