about half
past eleven
`` Thank you , Miss Dodge , '' continued Kennedy , laying down the pencil . `` Yes , I understand perfectly -- signed by that same Clutching Hand . Let me see , '' he pondered , looking at his watch . `` It is now just about half past eleven . Very well . I shall meet you and Miss Martin at Mr. Martin 's store directly . '' It lacked five minutes of noon when Kennedy and I dashed up before Martin 's and dismissed our taxi-cab .