About nine o'clock
`` We 'll have to leave off work at eleven , and not begin again until three as Dick suggested , if this heat keeps up , '' observed Ernest . `` Then we 'll begin work at dawn , '' said Roger , with a sigh . `` Every minute counts , old man . '' About nine o'clock Charley came panting down the trail . `` Felicia must come home at once , '' she cried . `` There 's a big sand storm coming . Dick is getting the stock under cover as fast as he can . ''