ten o'clock
His father was on some official business in town and his mother had not thought it necessary to break her weekly engagement with her bridge club . Frank wandered over to the hangars but he missed Lem and Chauncey and soon returned home . He was greatly excited over the coming trip , and had other and most serious reasons for wishing to go away . So many unpleasant thoughts crowded upon him that it was not until ten o'clock that he happened to think of his watch , still in Lawton at the pawnshop . He had not redeemed it , and the twenty-five dollars reposed in the bottom of his kit bag , in an envelope that had thread wound around it . He reflected that he could send the money and his ticket back to the pawnshop man , for it was too late to take the trip to town . His parents were apt to return at any time .