Three
o'clock in the afternoon
At Cedarville one of the Hall conveyances was to meet them , to transfer both them and their baggage to the institution . The run to Ithaca proved uneventful although the boys did not tire of looking out of the window at the beautiful panorama rushing past them . At noon they had lunch in the dining car , a spread that Sam declared was about as good as a regular dinner . Three o'clock in the afternoon found them at the steamboat landing , waiting for the Golden Star to take them up to Cedarville . `` Fred Garrison , by all that 's lucky ! '' burst out Tom suddenly , as he rushed up to a youth of about his own age who sat on a trunk eating an apple . `` Tom Rover !