ten o’clock
`` So you know not which way these women fled ? '' The old merchant seemed absolutely at sea . As Hawke shook his head the story was soon finished . `` My men at the marble house tell me that a strange young man arrived at ten o'clock . He was admitted by Simpson , the private man of Johnstone Sahib . The Swiss woman talked with him alone a half hour in the library , and then Johnstone 's daughter came down there , but only for a few moments . My men watched him writing and reading papers in the library ; then they all went away . ''