ten o'clock
Lynn put on a uniform of dark blue serge and a poke bonnet that was at her disposal whenever she had need of protection , and hurried out . She found the address after some trouble , but was told that the young gentleman was out . No one seemed to know when he would return . Two or three other lodgers gathered curiously , one suggesting a restaurant where he might be found , another a club where he sometimes went and a third laughed and called out from half way up the stairs : `` You 'll find him at the cabaret around the corner by ten o'clock to-night if you do n't find him sooner . He 's always there when he 's in town . '' Sick at heart Lynn went on her way , trying carefully each place that had been suggested but finding no trace of him . She met with only deference for her uniform wherever she went , and without the slightest fear she travelled through streets at night that she would scarcely have liked to pass alone in the daytime in her ordinary garb .