ten o'clock
Visitors may see the creature to-day in the Bronx Zoo . '' - - - That was the story which had brought out the visitors who were forming , moment by moment , a bigger crowd before Bentley 's cage . Bentley managed a glimpse of a woman 's wrist-watch after what seemed an age of trying to do so without his intention becoming plain to the too bright children who crowded as close to the cage as attendants would permit . It was ten o'clock . It would be at least twelve more hours before Bentley could reasonably expect any action on the part of Barter . Barter would now be concentrating on his plans to kidnap the eighteen men he had first named . Bentley tried to make the time pass faster by imagining what Barter would be doing .