two o'clock
`` We surely will , '' confirmed Tom Reade . The stop at the drug store was made , whereby the cash capital was lowered by eighty cents . Then Dick & Co. were off in earnest . So late had the start been made that the boys did not expect to reach their log cabin until after two o'clock . Over Christmas most of the snow had disappeared . There was not enough for good sledding , but just enough to make the going on wheels rather difficult . Before noon , appetite asserted itself .