three o'clock in the morning
`` And Jack Ness and the rest , '' put in Sam . `` I guess we 'll be glad enough to see everybody . '' 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 . ''