ten o'clock
There was no ring of footsteps . The crowd walked on sand and for the most part with naked feet , so that if for a rare moment the sharp high cries and the perpetual voices ceased , the figures of men and women flitted by noiseless as ghosts . And even at night , when the streets were most crowded and the uproar loudest , it seemed that underneath the noise , and almost appreciable to the ear , there lay a deep and brooding silence , the silence of deserts and the East . `` Durrance went down to Tewfikieh at ten o'clock that night , '' said Calder . `` I went to his quarters at eleven . He had not returned . He was starting eastward at four in the morning , and there was some detail of business on which I wished to speak to him before he went .