ten A.M.
As the only friend Mr. Ray appeared to have in this garrison I went with him to jail . '' `` You will think , hereafter , and not presume to go without my consent . '' `` Then I take this opportunity to ask permission , colonel ; I desire to return to my friend this afternoon , -- in ten minutes in fact . '' `` The post regulations , sir , require that such applications should be made at my office between nine and ten A.M. I am not disposed to consider them at other times , especially where gentlemen absent themselves without authority . '' And he turned majestically away . `` Am I to understand , colonel , that you refuse me permission to return to Mr. Ray in such an emergency as this ? '' choked Blake .