about
seven o'clock
`` Upon my word , '' said Jack , `` I feel funky to show my nose outside our gate , just as if I really had prigged those wretched coins . I sha n't be at all sorry this evening to get back to Ronleigh . It 's all in the paper this morning ; it mentions the footmarks and the knife-blade , and says that as yet the police have not been able to discover any further traces of the robbers . '' The conditions on which the half-term holiday was granted required every boy to return to school on the Monday evening , and accordingly , about seven o'clock , the Triple Alliance found themselves once more on their way to the railway station . They took their seats , and had hardly done so when young Noaks entered the compartment . `` Hullo , you fellows ! '' he exclaimed ; `` did n't you hear me whistle ?