Ten o'clock
We 're needing a couple more batteries , and I was just wondering if it 'd be all right to take 'em from that gasolene unit-car . We could put 'em back afterwards . '' `` Yes ; take 'em wherever you can find 'em , '' said the superintendent , who was thinking pointedly of other things just then ; and the permission given , he started his motor and drove away . Ten o'clock in the Saturday forenoon marked the time of Superintendent Kittredge 's flying visit to his chief 's headquarters-on-the-field at the head of Shonoho Canyon ; and at that hour Evan Blount , blinking dizzily , and with his head bandaged and throbbing as if the premier company of all the African tom-tom symphonists were making free with it , was letting Mrs. Honoria beat up his pillows and prop him with them , so that the drum-beating clamor might be minimized to some bearable degree . `` You are feeling better now ? '' suggested the volunteer nurse , going to adjust the window-curtains for the better comfort of the blinking and aching eyes . The victim of the hook-and-ladder squad 's mascot answered qualitatively .