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`` Of course there will , '' said Dick . `` Have you only just found that out ? Come along ; we 'll be late . '' Considering it was eight o'clock and they were yet five miles from home , this last observation was sagacious . They strolled on for half an hour in silence , mending their pace as they recovered their wind , until at the end of that time they had settled down into a steady three-and-a-half miles an hour , and felt rather more like getting home than they had done . `` Another hour will do it , '' said Dick . `` I say , we might smuggle in after all , Georgie .