one o'clock
His looks -- he -- oh I ca n't tell you now ! Only , come ! '' * * * * * I was busy at the office in spite of the holiday season , but I dropped everything and went . By one o'clock that afternoon I was wheeling my little sport midge from its cage on the roof of the Metropole building , and went into the air . It was a cold gray afternoon with the feel of coming snow . I made a good two hundred and fifty miles at first , taking the northbound through-traffic lane which to-day the meteorological conditions had placed at 6,200 feet altitude . Flying is largely automatic .