two o'clock
Very like she 's up to ask me to run down and see little Katie who is laid up with a sore throat . Well , I 'll go but I wo n't be long . Meantime if you can lend Mary a hand dinner will be through the quicker and you will be off to play the earlier . '' Thus it happened that before two o'clock Carl McGregor was one of the shouting throng of boys that crowded the small pond in Davis Park . Amid swirling skaters and a confusion of hockey sticks he moved in and out the thick of the game . So intent was he upon the sport that he might have continued playing until dark had not a boy at his elbow suddenly piped : `` There goes Hal Harling ! Hi , Hal !