seventeen minutes past ten
`` Your hand ? '' `` Here it is . '' And the hand of the first speaker , that is to say , five wide-open fingers , vigorously shook the two fingers coolly extended by the other . `` By the bye , '' said the first , `` I was able this morning to telegraph the very words of the order to my cousin at seventeen minutes past ten . '' `` And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten . '' `` Bravo , Mr. Blount ! '' `` Very good , M. Jolivet . ''