ten o'clock
`` How badly you would feel if I was lost ! '' said Eddie , and he looked sober and grieved , as he thought of the little boy about his own age , who had wandered from home , no one knew where . There was much fear that he had fallen into the river , as he had been seen on the dock . At ten o'clock the family started for church . They met people who were searching for the child , and who asked them , as the gentleman had done at the house , `` Have you seen any thing of a stray child ? '' Notice was given in the churches that a boy was lost , and many a mother 's heart beat quicker as she thought of her own dear little ones , and imagined one of them sleeping , perhaps , through that cold November night on the ground , or -LRB- fearful thought ! -RRB- buried deep in the chill water .