ten o'clock
Sometimes he had flung it forth and startled the mocking birds , and once he had let it ring into the midst of his astonished comrades in Florida when he was hidden from their view and they knew not who had made the sound . He tried it now softly , and then louder and louder , until with sudden fear he stopped lest his landlady should happen to come up that way and think him insane . But undoubtedly he could give the old signal . The next night at precisely ten o'clock Michael 's ringing step sounded down the alley ; firm , decisive , secure . Such assurance must Daniel have worn as he faced the den of lions ; and so went the three Hebrew children into the fiery furnace . `` It 's him ! It 's the angel ! ''