8:50
At about nine o'clock Dick Prescott and Tom Reade dropped in . `` Pretty near through , old fellow ? '' Dick asked . `` I will be when the 8:50 gets in and the goods are checked up , '' replied Dave . `` The train is a few minutes late tonight . '' There being no one else at the office , except the night manager and two clerks , Dick and Reade felt that they would not be in the way if they waited for Dave . Twenty minutes later the wagon drove up with the packages and cases that had arrived on the 8:50 train .