nine o'clock Monday morning
`` He was taken from in front of the embassy early in the morning . The ambassador brought him out for a spin in his automobile and left him out in front a moment . When he went back to continue his morning ride the automobile and the boy were nowhere to be seen ! This was before nine o'clock Monday morning . Yesterday , along about noon , the boy -- or a lad very much resembling him -- was seen by a lieutenant of infantry in a motor boat , speeding up the Potomac . '' `` Why did n't he catch him , then ? '' asked Jack .