nearly eleven o'clock
Grant stopped them : `` Now , here -- let 's divide off , five in a squad and go after the men on this level , and five in a squad go up to the next level and call the men out there . There 's time if we hurry to save the whole shift . '' He tolled them off and they went down the glimmering passages , that were beginning to grow dim with smoke . As he left the main bottom he saw by his watch under a torch that it was nearly eleven o'clock . He ran with his squad down the passage , calling out the men from their little rooms . Three hundred yards down the smoke grew denser . And he met men coming along the passage .