nine o'clock
Resting for a while after finishing supper , the girls began to make up neat packs containing such bare equipment and food supplies as they believed to be indispensable . Then there were the tent , blankets and cooking utensils to be looked after . Of course , the guide would carry much of this dunnage , yet our girls were no weaklings , and no one of them expected to shirk carrying her fair share of the load . It was after nine o'clock when Harriet and her chums finished the making-up of the packs . Soon after a clerk knocked on the door of Miss Elting 's room . `` There 's a man below who wishes to speak with you , '' the clerk informed her . `` It must be Mr. Grubb , '' guessed the guardian , and left her packing to go downstairs .