ten o'clock
`` That , '' said the adjutant , in his deep , deliberate tone , `` is precisely what I believe , but needed your evidence to establish . Now you will excuse me from further talk about this or anything else until , say , after office hours to-morrow morning . I have much to attend to . If you and the chaplain will meet me at ten o'clock , we can settle various matters . Meantime I 'll lock these papers in my desk . '' Across the dim hall-way , as the two friends left the office , stood the door of the sanctum of the post commander . It was just ajar , but there was no light beyond , and to all appearances the room was as deserted as it was dark .