three o'clock
Get after 'em , boy ! It 's a great game if you do n't weaken ! '' Five minutes later Drummond was driving rapidly toward the mouth of the mountain pass . By three o'clock he was back and following the line of camps again , with Tehachapi Hank huddled on the floor of the tonneau and covered with robes . Drummond had the good fortune to pass through Demarest , Spruce & Tillou 's Camp Number Two when Hiram had stopped there for a late `` hand-out , '' furnished by the obliging cooks . Drummond saw the black mare standing near the cook tent door , and hurried on through , elated over the knowledge that Hiram had not seen him . He at last dumped his passenger on the desert between camps , having estimated that the slow-moving burro train could not be many miles ahead .