nearly eleven o'clock
`` I 'm going after the answer , if there is one . I hope to be able to tell you the answer one of these days . '' Tom and Harry made two trips each , in different directions , to make sure that the watch men were awake and alert . It was nearly eleven o'clock when the general manager and his engineers turned in for a night 's rest -- `` subject to the approval of Jim Duff , '' as Tom dryly stated it . No more interruptions followed during the night , however . At daylight the watchmen sought their tents and the day force began to stir soon after . After the steam whistle bad blown the breakfast call , Reade slipped away from his friends to inspect the laborers at the meal .