nine o'clock
I am glad to say that Lord Beresford told me that after what he had seen of our fire , Government and private gun factories were going to work night and day turning out pneumatic guns to use it . The effect of it on land if a battery once gets within reach of large masses of men will be something frightful . '' `` Sounds pretty useful , '' said Lord Westerham , who was one of those soldiers who rightly believe that the most merciless methods of waging war are in the end most merciful . By nine o'clock Lennard was in the equatorial chamber of the observatory , taking his first observations since he had left for Portsmouth the week before . The ghostly shape pictured on the great reflector was bigger and brighter now , although , to his great comfort , none of the scientific papers had made any mention of its discovery by other observers . When he had noted its exact position , he went to his desk and plunged into a maze of calculations . Precisely at eleven there was a tap at the door and Mr Parmenter and Lord Westerham came in .