about ten o'clock
I did n't hear you ring . Did you fly in through the window ? '' Jack sprang up from the easy chair he had been occupying in the library of his own home , when his chum suddenly appeared before him . It was about ten o'clock on the morning following the hunt for the lost boy ; and the remarkable occurrences that had accompanied it up in the woods above Stanhope . `` Oh ! you know I told you I might slip in by the back door this time ; and that is just what I did , '' replied Paul , speaking in an unusually guarded tone . `` That 's a fact ! ''