ten o'clock
`` I 'm going to pay them back for this . And out of every two shots I fire one will be for you . '' Perhaps he had found his boy only to lose him , but that would have to be as God willed . At ten o'clock he went up to the house , to change his wet and draggled clothing . The ruins were being guarded by soldiers , and the work of rescue was still going on , more slowly now , since there was little or no hope of finding any still living thing in that flame-swept wreckage . He found Natalie in bed , with Madeleine in attendance , and he learned that her physician had just gone . He felt that he could not talk to her just then .