about one o'clock
`` There is a boy at the door says they want him at Judge Beldon 's this very instant . '' `` He 's _ nowhere _ '' answered Sadie solemnly , pausing in the work of arranging cups and saucers . `` It 's my private opinion that he has been and gone and hung himself . He passed the window about one o'clock , looking precisely as I should suppose a man would who was about to commit that interesting act , since which time I 've answered the bell seventeen times to give the same melancholy story of his whereabouts . '' `` My ! '' exclaimed the literal Julia , hurrying back to the boy at the door . She comprehended her sister sufficiently to have no faith in the hanging statement , but honestly believed in the seventeen sick people who were waiting for the doctor .