ten o'clock
`` He wants to boss me , and all of us , but he ca n't do it . He 's only fit to keep company with a heathen Chinee . '' Luke spent a couple of hours in selling papers . He had not forgotten his engagement with Mrs. Merton , and punctually at ten o'clock he pulled the bell of the house in Prairie Avenue . Just at that moment the door was opened , and he faced a boy of his own age , a thin , dark-complexioned youth , of haughty bearing . This , no doubt , he concluded , was Harold Tracy . `` What do you want ? ''