one o'clock
After their hunger was satisfied and the waiters had restored order to the table , Ted began the story of his adventures since he had let Bud out of the automobile . As he talked , Stella wooed the small boy to her side , and listened to the story with her arm around his shoulder , and long before it was done Scrub was her worshiper forever . Chief Desmond listened with close attention , and when Ted finished and exhibited the bill of the Green River Bank , which he examined carefully , he said : `` Mr. Strong , you 've beaten us all to it . I will go out to-morrow -- I mean to-day , for it 's one o'clock now -- and view the body myself . If it is , as seems almost certain to be , Dude Wilcox , one of the most dangerous men in the West is gone , but he has left behind for us to fight , and you to find , the man Checkers . This bill is your clew to the gang , but it is a counterfeit . As I have the thing figured out , the gang knew that forty thousand dollars was going to be shipped , but for some reason or other they dared not hold up the train out there , and telegraphed the gang in St. Louis to get it .