about ten o'clock
`` My clothing friend was at Seattle on his trip . His home , where his mother lay sick , was in Saint Louis -- nearly four days away . The last letter he had received from home told him that his mother was sinking . The same day on which he received this letter a customer came into his room about ten o'clock -- and he was a tough customer , too . He found fault with everything and tore up the samples . He was a hard man to deal with . You know how it is when you strike one of these suspicious fellows .