nine o'clock
They shook hands over the table . No further reference was made to a personal subject . Some way Garrison felt that a man had come to take the place of a boy , and while he reflected that the fight was not yet absolutely finished , and the bitterness of it might remain for some time yet to come , nevertheless he was thoroughly convinced that through some great lesson , or some awakening influence , Foster had come to his manhood and could henceforth be trusted to merit respect and the trust of all his fellow-beings . Garrison , alone , at nine o'clock , had an impulse to hasten off to Branchville . In the brief time of lying unconscious on the floor when Wicks struck him down , he had felt some strange psychic sense take possession of his being , long enough for the room that Hardy had occupied in Hickwood to come into vision , as if through walls made transparent . He had merely a dim , fading memory that when he awoke he had spoken to Dorothy , telling her to help him to go , that the hiding-place of Hardy 's will had been at last revealed . As he thought of it now , on his way to Dorothy 's abiding place , he shook his head in doubt .