about ten o'clock
They were acting worse than ever . There was no town government , but a man named Allenham had some time before been elected city marshal at a mass-meeting . During the day he appointed some deputies to help him maintain order . At about ten o'clock I shut up the barn , put out my lantern , and sat down in a little room in one corner which was used for an office . The town was noisy , but nobody came near the barn , which was back of the hotel and out of sight from the street . Some time after midnight I heard low voices outside and crept to a small open window . I could make out the forms of some men under a shed back of a store across a narrow alley .