ten o'clock
`` Do you think you could -- '' Santiago nodded . `` While Luis is at the Mission I shall go to my cousin Juan Moraga 's . You will dine with us at the Presidio , and I shall escort you back to the ship . '' It was ten o'clock when Rezanov , who had supped on the Juno , met Santiago in a sandy valley half a mile from the Presidio and mounted the horse his young friend himself had saddled and brought . The long ride was a silent one . The youth was not talkative at any time , and Rezanov was conscious of little else save an overwhelming desire to see Concha again . One secret of his success in life was his gift of yielding to one energy at a time , oblivious at the moment to aught that might distract or enfeeble the will .