ten o'clock
The ex-engineer 's mother was talking to Magnus and Harran , and crying as she talked . It seemed that Dyke was missing . He had gone into town early that afternoon with the wagon and team , and was to have been home for supper . By now it was ten o'clock and there was no news of him . Mrs. Dyke told how she first had gone to Quien Sabe , intending to telephone from there to Bonneville , but Annixter was in San Francisco , and in his absence the house was locked up , and the over-seer , who had a duplicate key , was himself in Bonneville . She had telegraphed three times from Guadalajara to Bonneville for news of her son , but without result . Then , at last , tortured with anxiety , she had gone to Hooven 's , taking Sidney with her , and had prevailed upon `` Bismarck '' to hitch up and drive her across Los Muertos to the Governor 's , to beg him to telephone into Bonneville , to know what had become of Dyke .