ten o'clock
So it must always be in making a trip down these inland waters , where one is at the mercy of a capricious current save when a favorite of fortune chances to own a motor boat that scorns the usual drifting process , and speeds along at a ten-mile-an-hour clip , regardless of baffling head winds . One day excellent progress may be made , and then come several during which it seems as though every deterring influence in the calendar arises to keep the voyager from making his expected distance during the hours of daylight . It is just as well in the start to decide that nothing that can arise will disturb one 's temper , and that with equally good nature the bad will be accepted with the good . By ten o'clock it was snowing furiously , and the tang of the bitter wind that swept across from the far distant Indiana shore seemed to penetrate to the very marrow , so that the boys were constantly exchanging places , one bobbing inside the cabin to get warm while the other held the steering apparatus . The snow became so furious that soon they were unable to see even the Kentucky bank , and then Maurice began to think they had better haul up before losing their bearings ; it would be a serious matter to find themselves adrift on the wide river without knowing whether they were in the middle of the stream or not . `` We 'd better haul in closer to the shore , and come to a halt , I think , Thad . It may be all right to run along in the midst of this storm , but I do n't like it a little bit .