three o'clock
If you can wait until to-morrow -- '' `` I must follow this afternoon -- now , '' interrupted Philip . `` They will have left a clean trail behind , and I can overtake them some time to-morrow . Will you have the team made ready for me -- a light sledge , it you 've got it . '' By three o'clock he was on the trail again . Breed had spoken truthfully when he said that his dogs were scrubs . There were four of them , two mongrels , one blind huskie , and a mamelute that ran lame . And besides this handicap , Philip found that his own endurance was fast reaching the ebbing point .