about
eleven o'clock
Roy Dennis hesitated for barely a second . Then he remarked to Phil , half-admiringly : `` You have been frank with me , Miss Alden , and , to tell you the truth , I think it is about time that I be equally frank with you . I have no idea where Philip Holt now is , but I do know something about how he got away from Cape May , and I am beginning to have my suspicions that there might have been something ` shady ' in his behavior that I did not think of at the time . Three nights ago , it must have been about eleven o'clock , I was just about ready for bed when Mr. Holt rang me up and asked to speak to me alone . He said that he had just had bad news and wished to get out of Cape May as soon as possible . He asked me if I would lend him my car so that he could drive to a nearby railroad station where he could get a train that would take him sooner to the place he wished to go . I thought it was rather a strange request and asked him why he did n't borrow Tom Curtis 's car ?