about 9:30
`` Then it would have been about half past when the trance began ? '' `` Yes . '' There was a silence at Sperry 's end of the wire . Then : `` He was shot about 9:30 , '' he said , and rang off . I am not ashamed to confess that my hands shook as I hung up the receiver . A brick house , she had said ; the Wells house was brick . And so were all the other houses on the street .