about half past eight
All of Tuesday Mrs. Bellows had spent in her room , and Mrs. Shaeffer had driven to the village in the afternoon with word that she had been crying all day , and bought some headache medicine for her . On Wednesday morning , however , she had appeared at breakfast , eaten heartily , and had asked Miss Shaeffer to take her letter to the post-office . It was addressed to Mr. Ellis Howell , in care of a Pittsburgh newspaper ! That night when Miss Eliza went home , about half past eight , the woman was gone . She had paid for her room and had been driven as far as Thornville , where all trace of her had been lost . On account of the disappearance of Jennie Brice being published shortly after that , she and her mother had driven to Thornville , but the station agent there was surly as well as stupid . They had learned nothing about the woman .