eight o’clock
After having fed the guard , Malahin goes back to the van . `` I have just got hold of the troop train , '' he says to his son . `` We shall go quickly . The guard says if we go all the way with that number we shall arrive at eight o'clock to-morrow evening . If one does not bestir oneself , my boy , one gets nothing ... . That 's so ... . So you watch and learn ... '' After the first bell a man with a face black with soot , in a blouse and filthy frayed trousers hanging very slack , comes to the door of the van .