ten
o’clock before
Apart from his natural tendency to play the tyrant over smaller boys , he felt a personal grudge against Phil for eluding him the day before , and so subjecting him to the trouble of another day 's pursuit , besides the mortification of incurring a reprimand from his uncle . Never did agent accept a commission more readily than Pietro accepted that of catching and bringing Filippo to the padrone . Leaving the lodging-house he walked down to the ferry at the foot of Cortlandt Street , and took the first train for Newark . It was ten o'clock before he reached the city . He had nothing in particular to guide him , but made up his mind to wander about all day , inquiring from time to time if anyone had seen his little brother , describing Phil . After a while his inquiries were answered in the affirmative , and he gradually got on the track of our hero . At twelve o'clock Phil went into a restaurant , and invested thirty cents in a dinner .