eleven o'clock
Tom gave his brother 's hand a squeeze under the table . `` Dora is all right , and if some day I get her for a sister-in-law I wo n't complain a bit . '' This plain talk made Dick 's face flush , but he felt tremendously pleased , nevertheless , and loved Tom more than ever . Directly after supper the boys were given until eleven o'clock to do as they pleased . At once some old barrels were piled high at one end of the campus , smeared with tar , stuffed with wood , and set on fire , and the blaze , mounting to the sky , lit up the neighborhood to the lake on one side and the mountains on the other . Four cadets had gone down to Cedarville to buy the fireworks and the things to eat , and by nine o'clock these returned , loaded down with their purchases . Among the crowd was Larry Colby , who sought out Dick as soon as he arrived .