eight o'clock
Looking up presently , she saw him standing at the well , in the full light from the kitchen doorway . He seemed to be looking in at Dolly , who , with her back to him , was at work over the stove . The next instant he was gone . It was eight o'clock . Jarvis Saunders alighted from the train at Ridgeville , finding his horse hitched to a rack according to the instructions he had left with his overseer . Mounting , he started homeward in a brisk canter through the clear moonlight . He was soon in the main road , and exhilarated by the crisp mountain air , after a sweltering ride in the dusty train .