eight o'clock
`` There 's the railroad ! '' he shouted . `` We 're crossing it . '' `` Just after eight o'clock , '' muttered Norman , as he craned his neck to make out the land beneath . `` We 're certainly this side o ' the town and we 'll take to the tracks . '' With this , he brought the steady airship about and began to follow the rails , which were now plain enough below . For another quarter of an hour , the monoplane made its way steadily to the south and then a sudden blur broke the landscape in the distance .