ten in the morning
`` We 'll risk that , '' declared young Trefusis . `` Come on . '' It was a very hilly twenty miles run across the moors to Trelangkerrick . Starting at ten in the morning it took the lads two hours and a quarter , in the face of a strong south-westerly breeze , to cover the distance . Half-way up the drive , they saw the Admiral and a companion emerging from a path leading from the kennels . `` Hulloa ! '' exclaimed Sir Peter cordially , as he recognized Vernon Haye .