six o'clock
She was sure of that . Again she asked Brom Bones for his brave best . * * * * * The Bishop was beginning to think that he might yet get through to French Village . His watch told him that it was six o'clock . Soon the sun would be going down , though in the impenetrable tenting of white smoke that had spread high over all the air there was nothing to show that a sun had ever shone upon the earth . With the going down of the sun the wind , too , would probably die away . The fire had not yet come to the road in front of him .