About ten o'clock
Sort of thing that works , too , unless a man happens to have his eyes well open . Luckily I 've stumbled up against this sort of thing before . '' The other man , who had his own ideas about the matter , nodded his head , but otherwise made no comment . About ten o'clock the troopers debouched from the trees into a low-lying stretch of land . One could not call it a gully ; it was more of a depression , a fault in the earth due to some local subsidence . On the nearest ridge a prospector 's hut was perched , from the chimney of which a wisp of smoke ascended . When one of the mounted men dropped from the saddle and opened the door he found no one in charge , though a dinner was merrily simmering away on the fire .