about four o'clock
Also , he had been going about the yard with contractors most of the afternoon . But Graham made his escape safely . It was two hours later when his father , getting into the limousine , noticed the absence of the boy 's red car , and asked the gateman how long it had been gone . `` Since about four o'clock , Mr. Spencer . '' Suddenly Clayton felt a reaction from the activities of the day . He sank back in the deeply padded seat , and felt tired and -- in some odd fashion -- lonely . He would have liked to talk to Graham on the way up-town , if only to crystallize his own thoughts .