midnight
If we do n't find them to-morrow I , for one , shall be in favor of making a trip around the lake in the launch . We can pretend that we had to go on an errand , or for some fishing bait or something of the sort . We must n't let them know we have been looking for them . '' It was after midnight when the boys turned in . They , too , went sound asleep directly they rolled up in their blankets in their little tent . Two hours later while the Tramp Club were oblivious to sound and time , the alarm clock on the `` Red Rover '' went off with a thrilling whirr . The girls sprang from their cots , Margery and Tommy protesting over being awakened at that unseemly hour , as they characterized it .