about ten o'clock
The front enemy trenches and the line where the vanished gas bags had swung were behind him . `` Seems to me I saw one of our planes drifting over this way . '' On earth it was darker , more misty , more impenetrable than it had been overhead . His watch , having an illuminated dial , indicated that the time was about ten o'clock . In his rear the darkness was more dense than ahead . Probably his plane had dropped just in the edge of that open space he thought he had dimly seen while up in the air . While looking over his machine as best he could to see if there was any chance to tinker it up so as to make another flight , he stopped short , his pulse leaping .