a quarter to ten
Presently I found a note upon my pyjamas . _ SIR , _ _ Must tell you we can not find Nobby , the chauffeur and me looking everywhere and Fitch as been out in Pau all evening in quest . Hoping his whereabouts is perhaps known to you , _ _ Yours respectfully , J. FALCON . _ I was at the Villa Buichi the following morning by a quarter to ten . It seemed just possible that the terrier was there a captive . That he was with us before we visited the house we well remembered . Whether he had entered with us and , if so , left when we did , we could not be sure .