about eight o'clock
`` Will you be over to-night , Hiram , to talk things over ? Bring your models with you , too , will you ? '' `` Sure , '' replied Hiram ; `` but I 've got to do a few things at home after supper . I 'll be over about eight o'clock or half-past . '' `` All right . I 'll be ready for you , '' responded Paul , as the lads said good-by . A few minutes later Jack Curtiss and his chums emerged from the newspaper office , the former and Bill Bender having made out their applications .