ten o'clock
With her words , the hunter moved forward ... . Dazedly Every watched the two pass at a walk into the gloomy corridor and dwindle slowly to a mere blur of blue and grey under the shadow of the towering walls . At last distance and dusk swallowed them , and he could see them no more . By the evening of the following Thursday the young man 's work was gone , and by ten o'clock on Friday morning his car had left Girdle and was flying up Gallowstree Hill . Provision had been made for the men ; the horses in the stables at Gramarye had been disposed of . He had only come , with Valerie 's approval , out of sheer pity for helpless men and beasts . His unexpected interview with André Strongi ` th ` arm worried him sorely .