six o'clock
Prescott made some newsy additions to the story , and through it all took the confident keynote that the vanished banker would soon be heard from in the flesh . The work done , and Bradley having already seen to the return of the horse to the livery stable , Dick and Dave went into an unused room , where they threw themselves down on piles of old papers . Tired out , they slept without stirring . But they had left a note for the office boy who was due at six o'clock to sweep out the business office . That office boy came in and called the High School pair at a few minutes after six . Dick 's first thought was to instruct the boy to telephone the Prescott and Darrin homes at seven in the morning , sending word that the two boys were safe but busy . Then Dick hastily led the way to a quick-order restaurant near by .