twenty-one
minutes past seven
`` Your canoe will be dry enough to launch in the morning , '' said Driggs , as he received the last load at his stable . `` Come down any time after eight o'clock and we 'll put it in the water . '' Were Dick & Co. on hand the next morning ? Dan Dalzell was the last of the six boys to reach post outside the locked gate of the yard , and he was there no later than twenty-one minutes past seven . At five minutes before eight Hiram Driggs arrived , keys in hand . `` I see you 're on time , '' he smiled , unlocking the gate and throwing it open . `` Now come in and we 'll run your canoe out on the river float . ''