one o'clock
Now drive on with the story . '' `` It begins with a letter , a photograph , a handkerchief , three American Beauty roses -- all in the cab of the sleeping horse -- '' `` God bless my soul ! '' exclaimed the Secretary . '' -- at one o'clock on Massachusetts Avenue and Eighteenth Street . '' `` Is the horse still asleep , Harleston ? '' `` The horse awoke , and straightway went to his stand in Dupont Circle ! '' Harleston laughed and related the incidents of the night and early morning , finishing his account in the Secretary 's private office .