nearly midnight
Here a connection can be made with the White Pass and Yukon route , and other routes . About ten miles away , up the Lynn Canal , was Dyea , also a town of importance . The boys followed Jack Wumble ashore and waited until some of the bustle and confusion was over , and then commenced a systematic hunt for Tom . The hunt lasted until nearly midnight , and then , utterly worn out , the Rovers and the old miner had to give it up . They had met just one man who remembered having seen a person who looked like Tom on the steamer , and who said the fellow had landed at Skagway . But where the unknown had gone the man could not say . `` Yes , that 's the fellow , '' said the man , when shown Tom 's photograph .