ten o'clock
Ben was entrusted with the mission , and warned to proceed cautiously . He found the doctors in urgent demand . There were wounded men hidden away in many places , and the authorities had obtained a monopoly of the services of the practising physicians . At ten o'clock that night Ben led a young Scotchman named Clusky in triumph to the tent . Clusky had qualified but gold on the rushes had proved more attractive than the wearisome hunt for fees in a Scottish villages and on Ballarat Dr. Clusky was a working miner . ` He 's the third to-day , ' Clusky said to Mary , ` and the worst -- by far the worst . No fool did that , though , ' he continued , referring to the bandaging of the shoulder , as he rapidly removed the linen .