about two o'clock in the morning
I 'm going to send on some of the pictures of the counterfeiters ' den ! '' The summit of the ridge was by no means a level pathway . There were peaks , canyons , gulleys and twistings to east and west which caused the boys to travel two miles or more for every mile they advanced toward the point where the two men Jack had followed had taken refuge . It was about two o'clock in the morning when they came in sight of the chimney rock which Ned had noted on the trip of the afternoon . It rose from the west slope of the mountain like a tower , tall , bulky , forbidding . Looking down upon it from the east , Ned saw that there was a small canyon in between it and the slope , much the same as the formation near the cave of the counterfeiters . It was evident that the rock had been cast down from the summit , and had caught there -- on a projecting ridge of stone .