They left here before eight o'clock, and now it's twenty minutes of eleven.

If everything had been all right, they'd have been back here by half-past nine o'clock at the latest." "Suppose we haul down the tent, pack the outfit and move on down the road, looking for some trace of them," proposed Greg.
"No; that would delay the start too much," Tom replied, with a shake of his head.

"Whoever goes out to hunt for Dick and Dave must move fast and not be tied to a horse and wagon.

I'm going, for one.

Who will go with me ?" "I will," promptly answered Dan, Harry and Greg, all in one breath.
"We'll have to leave one fellow to watch the camp," Reade answered, with a shake of his head.