one o'clock
`` Seen anything of him ? Expected him early to show me something , but he 's never come . '' No more , evidently , had his telegram , and my troubles were beginning early . I said I had not seen Raffles since one o'clock , telling the truth with unction while I could ; even as we spoke there came a knock at the door ; it was the telegram at last , and , after reading it himself , the Queenslander handed it to me . `` Called out of town ! '' he grumbled . `` Sudden illness of near relative !