eleven o'clock
On the next trip of the ferry across the river Mr. Dodge returned , the lumber yard manager accompanying him . Mr. Dodge had reported , with a very crestfallen air , at the guard tent , and from there had been hurried on to Captain Vesey 's tent . Now the story came out . Mr. Dodge had just given the eleven o'clock hail , the night before , when he was suddenly seized from behind and thrown flat . A pillowcase was slipped over his head while he was held by so many that struggling was out of the question . By the time the pillowcase had been pulled down over his head Mr. Dodge also discovered that he had been swiftly but most effectively bound . For the rest he knew only that he had been carried down the slope , unable to give any alarm , and that he had been lifted into a boat , taken over the river and dumped in the lumber yard .