ten o’clock
After some cogitation he murmured : `` There is another way of getting the news to Headquarters . Suppose you write me a formal letter just stating the facts , the unfortunate facts , which I will be able to forward . There is an agent of ours , a fellow I have been employing for purchasing supplies , a perfectly honest man . He is coming here from the north by the ten o'clock train with some papers for me of a confidential nature . I was rather embarrassed about it . It would n't do for him to get into any sort of trouble . He is not very intelligent .