Saturday night, about ten o'clock
Saturday night I sent him over to your house to deliver some things , about ten o'clock , and he has not showed up since . What do you think has become of him ? '' `` Well , by gum , that accounts for it . Saturday night , about ten o'clock we heard somebody in the back yard , around the kitchen door , just as we were going to bed , and Pa was afraid it was a burglar after the church money he had collected last Sunday . He had got to turn it over the next day , to pay the minister 's expenses on his vacation , and it made him nervous to have it around . I peeked out of the window and saw the man , and I told Pa , and Pa got a revolver and began shooting through the wire screen to the kitchen window , and I saw the man drop the basket and begin to climb over the fence real sudden , and I went out and began to groan , as though somebody was dying in the alley , and I brought in the basket with the mackerel and green corn , and told Pa that from the groaning out there I guess he had killed the grocery delivery man , and I wanted Pa to go out and help me hunt for the body , but he said he was going to take the midnight train to go out west on some business , and Pa lit out . I guess your man was scared and went one way and Pa was scared and went the other .