about ten o'clock
Would you mind letting me have it ? '' `` Here it is , sir , '' I said , handing it to him . And taking it with him , he left me to my thoughts . The morning of the inquiry came round , and at about ten o'clock Jimmy Macfarlane opened the door of my place of confinement and beckoned me to follow him . He conducted me through a long passage into a large room adjoining the prison house . It was a comfortable apartment , with a bright peat fire burning on the hearth , before which Colin Lothian 's dog lay sound asleep . Close to the fire and athwart the room was a long table , where , as I entered , I saw Bailie Duke seated at his ease in a large armchair .