four o'clock
`` I 'm satisfied right now that we 've been misinformed when told that a boat answering the description of the one in which those two yeggmen fled , was seen to enter here this afternoon ; and that two young men were aboard her . '' `` What time in the afternoon , Captain ? '' asked Jack , quietly , though with a purpose in the question . `` The man who talked to me over the phone , said he had arrived in the suburb where he lived at four o'clock . He had been out in his motor , and was crossing a bridge here when the boat passed under , going up . He could not be sure to the minute , but reckoned that was somewhere around two p. m. '' Jack turned to Jimmie . His face shone with eagerness , for a faint suspicion that had been creeping into his head was now rapidly becoming a certainty .