a quarter after four
He and Mrs. Pitman investigated . The boat which Mrs. Pitman uses during a flood , and which she had tied to the stair-rail , was gone , having been cut loose , not untied . Everything else was quiet , except that Mrs. Ladley 's dog had been shut in a third-story room . '' ` At a quarter after four that morning Mrs. Pitman , thoroughly awake , heard the boat returning , and going to the stairs , met Ladley coming in . He muttered something about having gone for medicine for his wife and went to his room , shutting the dog out . This is worth attention , for the dog ordinarily slept in their room . ' '' `` What sort of a dog ? ''