eight o'clock
`` I do n't believe he will do much , '' said Larry Colby . `` He is only talking , that 's all . He knows well enough that Captain Putnam can have him locked up , if he wants to . '' By eight o'clock that evening the field in which they were to encamp for the night was reached . Tents were speedily put up , and half a dozen camp-fires started , making the boys feel quite at home . The cadets gathered around the fires and sang song after song , and not a few practical jokes were played . `` Hans , they tell me you feel cold and want your blood shook up , '' said Tom to Hans Mueller , the German cadet .