five o'clock
`` I certainly am , '' young Prescott affirmed . That was too much of a poser for the other members of Dick & Co. . Nothing more was said on the subject , though the five boys did considerable thinking . Toward five o'clock they came in sight of Ashbury . A few minutes later they had reached a point where the highway turned into one of the streets of the town . Here a uniformed bell-boy from the Ashbury Terraces Hotel approached them . `` Is Mr. Prescott in this party ? ''