ten o'clock in the morning
I should add that the first report about the bloodstains and the swamp and the bloodhounds turned out to be inaccurate . The stains may have been blood , but as they led to the cellar way of Netley 's store they may have also been molasses , though it was argued , to be sure , that the robber might well have poured molasses over the bloodstains from sheer cunning . It was remembered , too , that there were no bloodhounds in Mariposa , although , mind you , there are any amount of dogs there . So you see that by ten o'clock in the morning the whole affair was settling into the impenetrable mystery which it ever since remained . Not that there was n't evidence enough . There was Pupkin 's own story and Gillis 's story , and the stories of all the people who had heard the shots and seen the robber -LRB- some said , the bunch of robbers -RRB- go running past -LRB- others said , walking past -RRB- , in the night . Apparently the robber ran up and down half the streets of Mariposa before he vanished .