About nine o'clock in
the evening
The weather conditions were ideal , and Dave had a definite goal in view . There was not a break in the pleasant twilight journey . The Monarch II fulfilled all expectations and promises . About nine o'clock in the evening the record showed over two hundred miles accomplished , when they descended on a level stretch of prairie near a small bustling city . Here the gasoline supply in the tanks was replenished . The basket had been stored with over a hundred gallons of this in separate packages , without embarrassing the buoyancy of the machine , as the young aviators were far below average operating weight . `` This high living of ours makes and hungry , '' intimated Hiram , as they finished getting the machine in shape to renew the flight .