ten o'clock
Boys not so bad . New cop asks questions . Gave new cop a five . `` Monday : Got to Martha Putnam early , and at ten o'clock saw taxi arrive and ducked across street , and -- '' He never could have written the rest of it ; for from the taxi there descended a young lady who handed a light suit case to the porter , asked him to pay the bill , and would have entered the Martha Putnam had she not discovered a man nearly blocking her path , with an extended hand , and with an ingratiating smile on his face , who said , `` How lucky to meet you just as I was about to leave . How are you ? '' The policeman on the corner grinned , pulled his mustache , winked at himself , jingled the change in his pocket left from that grateful five , and then swung up his hand to caution the taxi driver as the latter turned into the cross street . `` You 're a nice one , I must say , '' she remarked , half petulantly .