eight o'clock
`` There is so much at stake , '' rejoined Ralph . `` I feel as if a fuse had been lighted , and I was just waiting for something to explode . '' `` And something will explode ere long , I imagine , '' laughed Horace Kelsey . It was a little after eight o'clock when the train rolled into Chambersburgh and they alighted . Both knew the place fairly well , and started at once for the steamboat landing . Just as they turned a corner of the street they came face to face with three police officers who were escorting two men and a boy to the station-house . The men were Dock Brady and another .