eleven
o'clock
`` I vote we go at once , Harry , and see if he is here . '' `` I do n't think we shall find him here ; for Barnett said that he lived in the village of Miraflores , five miles away on the north , and that if he is not there , Señor Pasquez , to whom I have a letter , will be likely to tell me where he is to be found , for he is often employed by him . However , I am as anxious as you to see him . As it is only eleven o'clock yet , there is no reason why we should not go to Miraflores . They will get mules for us at the hotel , and tell us which road to take . '' It was not necessary , however , to go into the hotel , for when they returned , two or three men with mules were waiting to be hired . They engaged two animals , and as the man of whom they hired them had a third , and he was ready to accompany them for a small fee , they agreed to take him with them .