About eleven o'clock
`` I 've got it in splendid condition now , Frank , '' he announced , `` and from this time on there 'll be no danger of a slip when the trap is sprung . That 's been bothering me a whole lot for some time now , and I 'm tickled to know the ghost is laid . '' Every little while he examined the negative he had drying , as though anxious to get a proof from it when it was in proper condition . About eleven o'clock he came to Frank holding a browned bit of paper on which the sun had printed a very clear picture as taken when the flashlight cartridge burned . `` The face shows fairly well , '' he announced . `` I 'd easily enough recognize the man if ever I ran across him , and that 's something . '' Frank looked long and earnestly at the proof .