ten o'clock
He had reached Denboro and found his journey all a mistake ; his wife and Bennie D. had not , apparently , visited that village ; perhaps had not even started for it . Therefore , in a measure relieved , he thought of other things . He was many miles from his post of duty , and now his sole idea was to get back to it . At ten o'clock Mrs. Hepsibah Deacon , a widow living in a little house in the woods on the top of the hill on the Denboro side of Eastboro Back Harbor , with no neighbors for a mile in either direction , was awakened by shouts under her bedroom window . Opening that window she thrust forth her head . `` Who is it ? '' she demanded quaveringly .