1:30
The divers , gathered on a scow , were now waiting for the `` Morton '' to convey them back to shore . Reade decided to go with them . `` Twenty minutes to two , '' murmured Tom to himself , glancing at his watch as the `` Morton '' went laboriously back over the dancing , glinting waves . `` There 's a train due at Blixton at 1:30 . By the time I get back to the house I ought to find one or more officials of the company impatiently waiting to jump on my devoted neck . '' Nor was Tom disappointed in this expectation . Pacing up and down on the porch of the house occupied by the engineers and superintendent was George C. Bascomb , president of the Melliston Company .