About one o'clock
The quarters were strange to them , and there was more or less noise throughout the school building , a bunch of scholars coming in on a late train and not getting settled down until after midnight . There was also something of horseplay , although the majority of the cadets were too tired from their journeys to be very active . `` I suppose we 'll have to stand some hazing and all that sort of thing later on , '' remarked Jack before retiring . About one o'clock the school seemed to settle down , and then one after another the Rover boys fell asleep , not to awaken until the autumn sun was showing well above the hills beyond Clearwater Lake . `` This certainly is a splendid location , '' remarked Jack , as he went to the open window , stretched himself , and filled his lungs with the fresh morning air . `` I do n't wonder Colonel Colby picked this place out for a school , '' answered Andy , who had come in . `` He could n't have done better . ''