twenty minutes past three
Jet repeated . `` Why , it has n't been more than ten minutes since I fell asleep . '' `` You are not awake yet . It 's twenty minutes past three , '' and the man looked at his watch , as if to assure himself that he had made no mistake . `` Now , what is the matter , and where did you leave Harvey ? '' Jet gazed around him in bewilderment at the thought that he had been sleeping so long ; but as the man asked these last questions it seemed certain everything was all right , and he replied , without hesitation : `` I left Mr. Harvey wounded near a house about five miles from here . '' Then he told the entire story , the men glancing triumphantly at each other as he proceeded .