eight o’clock
The air-car stood revealed -- a startling , because wholly unique , vision . Long did Sweetwater survey it , then turning with beaming face upon the watchful inventor , he uttered a loud Hurrah . Next moment , with everything forgotten between them save the glories of this invention , both dropped simultaneously to the floor and began that minute examination of the mechanism necessary to their mutual work . Saturday night at eight o'clock . So the fiat had gone forth , with no concession to be made on account of weather . As Oswald came from his supper and took a look at the heavens from the small front porch , he was deeply troubled that Orlando had remained so obstinate on this point . For there were ominous clouds rolling up from the east , and the storms in this region of high mountains and abrupt valleys were not light , nor without danger even to those with feet well planted upon mother earth .