three o'clock
Twice , while still on the city streets , he had passed belated pedestrians and once he had glimpsed a policeman under a street lamp . He had not paused , however , for his one desire was to get home and to discover if his father had been injured . It had occurred to him that perhaps he should report his experience to the police , but the thought then came to him that they might detain him , -- and the one thing that he wanted now was freedom . So he went on swiftly toward Hamilton and before three o'clock was approaching the house that he had always known as home . All of the windows were dark , -- a reassuring sign . If anything terrible had happened , surely there would be a light in the house . Teeny-bits went round to the rear and tried the kitchen windows till he found that one was unlocked .