about five o'clock
There 'll be no sleeping here for us to-night ; we shall have to move the tent and stretchers to higher ground . '' Half an hour later the tent was pitched several acres away . Had the lightning not died away , they would have seen that they were near two other tents of exactly the same size as their own . It was about five o'clock when Joe awoke , and looking out of the tent saw the sun was already casting a warm glow in the east . Seeing Harry showed no signs of waking , he slipped quietly from his stretcher , dressed , and stealing past his mate , left the tent . Signs of life were already visible in camp . In another hour the entire camping outfit would be loaded on the waiting flat-cars and taken to the end of the track -- which again stretched over two miles westward -- and a new camping-ground found , after which breakfast would be served and the phenomenal track-laying be again continued .