About eleven o'clock
`` If I send again for a boy to take out Fido , I want you to come . '' `` I will if I can , ma'am . '' For several days , though Frank was employed on errands daily , there was nothing of an unusual character . About eleven o'clock one evening -LRB- for Frank had to take his turn at night work -RRB- he was sent to a house on West Thirty-eighth street . On arriving , he was ushered into the presence of a lady of middle age , whose anxious face betrayed the anxiety that she felt . `` I have a son rather larger and older than you , '' she said , `` who , to my great sorrow , has been led away by evil companions , who have induced him to drink and play cards for money . I will not admit them into my house , but I can not keep him from seeking them out .