about four o'clock
Harry thought of it less as a wrong to Frank than as an outrage to his mother . It was this , too , that made the young man burn to take the Sunday School superintendent by the throat and lash him till he howled himself dumb in his own chapel . Harry returned to his log in Wilson 's back paddock again in the afternoon to wrestle with his difficulties , and , with the gluttonous rosellas swinging on the gum-boughs above , set himself to reconsider all that he had heard of Frank 's case and all the possibilities that had since occurred to him . Here Dick Haddon discovered him at about four o'clock . Dick was leading a select party at the time , with the intention of reconnoitring old Jock Summers 's orchard in view of a possible invasion at an early date ; but when he saw Harry in the distance he immediately abandoned the business in hand . An infamous act of desertion like this would have brought down contempt upon the head of another , and have earned him some measure of personal chastisement ; but Dick was a law unto himself . ` So long , you fellows , ' he said .