about half after one o'clock
He went back and opened the door , leaving the fowl their liberty . When in the lane behind his house , he walked along in the rear of the houses , and making sure that he was unobserved , crossed the road and entered the thick Penhallow forest . He walked rapidly for half an hour , and leaving the wood road found his way to the cabin the first Penhallow built . It was about half after one o'clock when the fugitive lay down on the earth of the cabin with his hands clasped behind his head . He stared upward , wondering where he could go to be safe . He would have to spend some of the carefully saved money . That seemed to him of all things the most cruel .