two o'clock
The snow was driving swift and hard . `` I checked you just in time , '' said he . `` There 'll be no train either way this night . '' And so by two o'clock , and just as the paymaster was driving away down the front of officers ' row , Mrs. and Miss Sumter , with Miss Arnold , escorted by the two medical officers , were struggling across the open space between the surgeon 's houses and the rear fence of the long line , and presently entering the back gate at Sumter 's . It was an odd arrangement , somewhat peculiar to frontier stations of the day . The enclosure of Fort Cushing was diamond-shaped . The entrance gate was at the eastern apex .