five o'clock
Over one they made coffee ; over the other , they fried bacon and eggs . This , with bread , constituted the meal . A brief rest , then on they went once more . It was toward five o'clock when Dick and Tom , who knew the road from having tramped over it before , announced that they were less than half a mile from the point where they would turn in to go to the second lake . At this time Greg and Dan were managing the push cart . Tom and Dick strode on ahead , watching for the first sign of the path that should lead down to their intended camp site . Suddenly , however , Prescott seized Reade by the arm , halting him .