two o'clock
The danger was not now , but then , and even then perhaps more hers than his . I waited long for Jack Ballard , but he did not return and so I went out into the streets and walked rapidly for exercise down town in the general direction of Flynn 's Gymnasium over on the East Side , where I proposed to meet Jerry later in the afternoon . I had kept no record of the time and when my appetite advised me that it was the luncheon hour , I looked at my watch . It was two o'clock . I sauntered into a cross street , finding at last a quiet place where I could eat and think in peace . `` Dry-as-dust ! '' I was .