three in the morning
When the boys arrived at Ithaca they found there had been a freight smash-up on the railroad , and that they would have to wait for five or six hours for a train to take them home . This would bring them to Oak Run , their railroad station , at three o'clock in the morning . `` I move we stay in Ithaca over night , '' said Tom . `` If we got to Oak Run at three in the morning , what would we do ? There would be no one there to meet us , and it 's a beastly hour for rousing anybody out . '' So they decided to put up at a hotel in Ithaca , and went around to a new place called the Students ' Rest . The hotel was fairly well filled , but they secured a large apartment with two double beds .