ten o'clock
Then they talked to the driver about it ; but the ' driver could give them no information whatever . They sent him over the hotel to question all the people , but this search was as vain as the others had been . There was no one in the hotel , from the big landlord down to the scullion , who could tell anything at all about David . By the time all these examinations and searches had been made it was after ten o'clock . Breakfast had been served at seven , and seven was the hoar at which David should have been among them . He had been gone , therefore , more than three hours . Even the boys now began to feel uneasy .