about one
o'clock
Ranleigh asked , pushing back the instrument . Harleston shook his head in negation . `` I thought it might be your Lady of Peacock Alley , for it 's about the cab matter . She says that she has something to tell me regarding a mysterious cab on Eighteenth Street last night sometime about one o'clock . '' `` There are quite too many women in this affair , '' Harleston commented . `` However , the Burlingame is almost directly across the street from where I found the cab , so her story will be interesting -- if it 's not a plant . '' `` And it may be even more interesting if it is a plant , '' Ranleigh added .