seven o'clock
The afternoon dragged away and the house seemed like a tomb . And at five o'clock I did what I had wanted to do for six long hours . I sent off a forty-seven word telegram to Peter Ketley , telling him what had happened ... . Duncan came back , at seven o'clock , to get one of the new photographs of Dinkie and Lossie for identification purposes . They had rounded up a small boy at Morley and Kearney was motoring out to investigate . We 'd know by midnight ... . It is well after midnight , and Duncan has just had a phone-message from Morley .