ten o'clock
`` No one passed me after I left Fairlands . '' `` Hu-m-m . If Doc left town before you , he must have had a puncture or something , or he would have passed the Station before he did . '' It was ten o'clock when the two men arrived at the Morton ranch . `` We do n't want to start any excitement , '' said the officer , as they drew rein at the corral gate . `` You stay here and I 'll drop in -- casual like . '' It seemed to Aaron King , waiting in the darkness , that his companion was gone for hours .