ten o'clock in the evening
`` One looks about as good as another on paper , '' remarked Earl , at last . `` I think we had best take the New York Central Railroad to Chicago , then the Rock Island & Chicago to Rock Island , and then the Southern Pacific . We 'll find out about that route when we reach New York . '' It was exactly ten o'clock in the evening that the train rolled into the Grand Central Depot at Forty-second Street and Randy and Earl alighted . The crowd was very thick , and though both looked for Roland and Guardley , the two men could not be discovered . The coming and going of so many people confused them , and the many cries which greeted them as they emerged on the street did not tend to set them at ease . `` Cab , sir ?