about ten o'clock
`` I certainly hope so , because when you know the worst you can plan to meet the difficulty . And if only we could win the rubber in this series with Harmony , it 'd make little old Chester famous . '' The two boys who were holding this animating and interesting conversation stood kicking their heels on a corner where the main street in the town was crossed by another . It was about ten o'clock on a morning in early summer . Chester seemed to be quite a bustling sort of town , located in the East . Considerable business was carried on in the place , for there were several factories running , employing hundreds of workers at good wages . Certainly no town in the broad land could be more advantageously located than the borough in which Toby Hopkins and Steve Mullane lived .