half past one
`` There 's something here , '' he said . I went cold all over , and had to clutch the railing . But when Terry had come , and the two of them brought the thing to the surface , it was only the dining-room rug , which I had rolled up and forgotten to carry up-stairs ! At half past one Mr. Holcombe wrote a note , and sent it off with Terry , and borrowing my boots , which had been Mr. Pitman 's , investigated the dining-room and kitchen from a floating plank ; the doors were too narrow to admit the boat . But he found nothing more important than a rolling-pin . He was not at all depressed by his failure . He came back , drenched to the skin , about three , and asked permission to search the Ladleys ' bedroom .