ten o’clock
I withdrew rapidly from the scene , feeling the need for rest and silence . As I walked I meditated profoundly . From the innocent lips of Cousin Egbert the following morning there fell a tale of such cold-blooded depravity that I found myself with difficulty giving it credit . At ten o'clock , while I still mused pensively over the events of the previous day , he entered the Grill in search of breakfast , as had lately become his habit . I greeted him with perceptible restraint , not knowing what guilt might be his , but his manner to me was so unconsciously genial that I at once acquitted him of any complicity in whatever base doings had been forward . He took his accustomed seat with a pleasant word to me . I waited .