three o'clock
he asked . `` What do they run on then ? '' `` Why -- er -- you wait and see ! '' `` That 's all right , but it 's almost three o'clock and our train goes from the other station at a quarter-past , and -- '' `` Well , we 'll ask someone , '' said Steve . But , oddly enough , there was no one to ask . For a town as large as New York that block of street was strangely deserted . A team or two passed and an elderly woman crept by on the opposite sidewalk , but no one came near them .