five o'clock
Even this unheroic thing he did in fear and trembling , for the spirit of Townsend Ripley seemed to pervade the quiet spot . Then the trio proceeded quietly down the river in the darkness . The first one to awake in the morning was Keekie Joe . Going to school on Monday was such an unusual thing with him that he had awakened at five o'clock , and had not been able to go to sleep again . He had a strange , nervous feeling as if he might be going to his own wedding . The school would look strange on a Monday . Ordinarily after a week 's vacation he would have taken both Monday and Tuesday .