ten o'clock
Of course all the fellows will go on the top of the omnibuses , so if we cut round to the stables directly after breakfast , we can stow ourselves away inside one , under the seat , and then we shall have it all to ourselves . '' `` All right , '' said Heathcote , looking at last as if he saw his way to the venture . And the two friends forthwith dived , and turned the plan over beneath the waves . When , punctually at ten o'clock , the six coaches paraded in the great Quadrangle , no one noticed the absence of Dick and his henchman in the crowd that assembled to watch the departure of the lucky seventy . Nor when coach one had started with the Eleven , and coaches two , three , and four had carried off the rest of the Sixth and Fifth , did any one suspect that coach five had taken up two of its passengers already . The Upper and Middle Fourth , who boarded this vehicle , had little idea , as they pitched their coats and wraps inside and mounted themselves to the top , that , like the birds who buried the babes in the wood beneath the leaves , they were hiding the light of day from two innocents who lay one under either seat , with their noses to the fresh air and their hearts very decidedly in their mouths . `` Chock full up here , '' cried a voice from the top , which Dick , even in his retirement , recognised as belonging to Duffield , the post fag , who , by virtue of his office , was just out of the Den ; `` you kids will have to go inside . ''