about
two o'clock in the morning
When they got back to the farm-house they found a telephone message urgently summoning him to town , and he had driven away , in the open car , without changing . Rush had meant to telephone but had neglected this -- they were terribly busy , of course , trying to get things done without any labor to do them with . He had come home Wednesday , on a promise to Graham 's kid sister that he would attend a school dance of hers . He had dressed at home but not dined there and had seen nothing of his father until very late , about two o'clock in the morning , when he noticed a light in his room as he passed on the way to his own . `` I do n't know why I stopped , '' he said . `` He was talking and his voice did n't sound natural , not as if he was telephoning nor talking to any one in the room , either . He was trying to telephone -- to the hospital to send an ambulance for him .