morning about ten o'clock
Mr. Munroe rose at once , and went forward , Mrs. Munroe looked with a pale face around her silver tea-urn , and Earl sat as if frozen . He heard his father 's soothing questions , and the mother 's answers . She had been out at work all day ; when she returned , Jenny was gone . Some one had seen her going up the road to the Munroes ' that morning about ten o'clock . That was her only clew . Earl sat there , and saw his mother draw the poor woman into the room and try to comfort her ; he heard , with a vague understanding , his father order the horses to be harnessed immediately ; he watched him putting on his coat and hat out in the hall . When he heard the horses trot up the drive , he sprang to his feet .