two in the afternoon
He carried his fishing-rods , for Patty had told him that their lake was alive with black bass . Warrington was an ardent angler . Rain might deluge him , the sun scorch , but he would sit in a boat all day for a possible strike . He arrived at two in the afternoon , and found John , Kate and Patty at the village station . A buckboard took them into the heart of the forest , and the penetrating , resinous perfumes tingled Warrington 's nostrils . He had been in the woods in years gone by ; not a tree or a shrub that he did not know . It was nearly a two hours ' drive to the lake , which was circled by lordly mountains .