about two o'clock
What telegram ? '' inquired Lloyd . `` Yes , I was on call . The first despatch asking for another extra nurse came about two o'clock . The four-twenty was the first train I could have taken -- the two-forty-five express is a through train and do n't stop at Medford -- and , as I say , I was just going out of the door when Dr. Pitts 's second despatch came , countermanding the first , and telling us that the patient had died . It seems that it was one of the officers of the Freja expedition . We did n't know -- '' `` Died ? ''