About eight o'clock
`` That is true , '' replied Beechnut , `` but those things will be as likely to happen if I were with him as if he were alone . It seems to me that when a boy gets as old as Stuyvesant , the only advantage of having some one with him when he is traveling is to keep him from doing careless or foolish things , -- and Stuyvesant can take care of himself in that respect . '' It was finally decided that Stuyvesant should go alone . About eight o'clock , Mrs. Henry went up into Stuyvesant 's room to pack his trunk , but she found it packed already . Stuyvesant had put every thing in , and had arranged the various articles in a very systematic and orderly manner . The trunk was all ready to be locked and strapped ; but it was left open in order that Mrs. Henry might see that all was right . Besides his trunk , Stuyvesant had a small carpet-bag , which contained such things as he expected to have occasion to use on the way .