ten o'clock
I brought my suitcase down here , thinking that I might want to start in a hurry . '' `` Go ahead , my boy . Good luck , '' said his chief . And so Smith caught the ten o'clock express from the Pennsylvania station , leaving behind him in the Guardian office an elderly gentleman in whose breast an undefined cheerfulness had awakened . But it was to neither Philadelphia nor Pittsburgh that the Vice-President 's ticket read ; he had taken a ticket to Harrisburg . Many years before , the Attorney-General of the state of Pennsylvania had been a famous football player at the state university ; whether his gridiron career had any bearing on his legal equipment or not was a question , but it certainly did not make him a worse man . His name was James K. Prior , he stood six feet one , and weighed two hundred pounds .