ten o'clock
The brilliant holiday display in the show windows charmed him , and he spent fully two hours in looking at all that was to be seen . `` Who knows but what I may go to work to-morrow , and then I wo n't get much chance to look around , '' he reasoned to himself . He was accustomed to work at the poor-house from six in the morning until eight or nine at night , and he did not know but what he would have to do more in such a bustling city as New York . By ten o'clock Hal found himself tired out . The snow was now six inches deep and was still coming down . He turned from Broadway through Grand Street and presently found himself well over on the east side . `` Good Beds for 25 Cents per Night . ''