About ten o'clock
`` Now , where shall we go ? '' I will not undertake to describe the route followed by the two . The city was pretty much all new to the stranger from Minneapolis , and it mattered little where he went . About ten o'clock the two witnessed from a distance a scene between a man of forty and an old , infirm man , apparently seventy years of age . `` The younger man is Ralston , the gambler , '' said Chester , in excitement , when they were near enough to recognize the figures of the two . `` Halt a minute , and let us hear what it is all about , '' returned Mr. Perkins . `` I am hungry , '' said the old man , pitifully , `` and I have no money for a bed .