about ten
o'clock
This brought two callers to the hotel almost at once . One was the attorney Fitt , the other a young woman who gave her name as Kate Underwood . Fitt used an hour of the old miner 's time to no purpose , but the young woman brought with her one piece of news . `` I want to know when Mr. Gordon was last seen , '' she explained , `` because he was calling on my mother and me last night and left about ten o'clock . '' The little man got to his feet in great excitement . `` My dear young woman , you 're the very person I 've been wanting to see . He told me he was going calling , but I 'm such a darned chump I did n't think to ask where .