ten o'clock
`` Here we go ! '' announced Phil as the engine finally took hold . `` Now -- just as soon as we get beyond the city limits ... ! '' At ten o'clock , when all good little football players were supposed to be tucked in their beds or , at least , safe in their rooms , a runabout containing the outstanding star of Medford 's eleven was whizzing along the highway with the indicator wavering between fifty and fifty five miles an hour . `` Nine miles in fifteen minutes ! '' figured Phil , eyes intent on the road ahead . `` At that rate we 'll be in Medford around ten-sixteen .