ten o'clock
Johnson nodded . `` I 'll say just enough and no more , '' he remarked . `` If you start at once , you 'll be there by daylight if not before . That will get you back here by nine or ten o'clock . I do n't want him taken to San Mateo ; that would stir up a swarm of inquiries and might even send some of the curious up to the spot . Let the trail get cold , so to speak . People are n't half as curious about a thing three or four days after it happens as at the moment . ''