about eleven o’clock
He went and got it , appearing , I thought , not at all over-anxious about old Betty ; and I meantime buckled on an old rusty spur which lay in the stable window , the leathers of it crumbling off in flakes . Thus armed , and mounted with my feet in the stirrups , and therefore a good pull on Missy 's mouth , I found my courage once more equal to the task before me . Andrew and I parted at right angles ; he across the field to old Betty 's cottage , and I along the road once more in the direction of John Adam 's farm . Failure It must have been now about eleven o'clock . The clouds had cleared off , and the night had changed from brown and grey to blue sparkling with gold . I could see much better , and fancied I could hear better too . But neither advantage did much for me .