ten o'clock
`` He ca n't be a great ways off . I saw him in front of the squire 's house when the committee went in . '' `` The boy 's gone down to the Harbor again with the rest of the folks , talking about the war , '' added gra n'ther Greene , as he rose from his chair , and hobbled into his chamber adjoining the kitchen . At ten o'clock , the mother began to be a little uneasy ; and at eleven , even John had some fears that all was not well with his brother . Neither of them was able to suggest anything that could possibly have happened to the absentee . There had been no battle fought , and so nobody could have been killed . There had been no violence used in the transactions of the evening further than breaking in the front door of Squire Pemberton , so that it was not easy to believe that any accident had happened to him .