ten o'clock
I am ready to help you in every way I can to prevent this thing . I would be anyway , but with these two criminals planning deliberately to get my uncle -- why , there 's nothing we can do at this late date -- '' `` There 's the telegraph wire . What time is it now ? '' `` Not quite ten o'clock , '' answered Phil , glancing at his watch . `` If I could get away from here immediately , I could make it -- wire the story to the _ Recorder _ with instructions to communicate with the police -- to-night , I mean . The paper does n't go to press until after three-thirty . But there 's no time to lose . ''