the hour of two
`` We 'll get there before the game is over , anyhow , '' she said quietly . `` I want to see Williams 's face when you come onto the field . '' `` I thought you and he '' -- `` I never have liked him , '' she interrupted quickly . Three minutes before the town clock chimed the hour of two in Hilton , the machine , again running smoothly , shot out from the garage . Its occupants , refreshed and more cheerful , faced the final stretch of the long race . `` Fourteen miles in twenty-one minutes , '' cried McCarthy , as the mile posts flashed by . `` We 'll be there . ''