two o'clock
Six of them carried rifles . In the hands of the seventh was a shotgun . After this , one by one , and two by two , there were added others to the circle of waiting men about the fire . By two o'clock there were twenty . They came faster after that . With Bernard , from the south , came Renault , who had gone to the end of his run . From the east , west , and south they continued to come -- but from out of the northwest there led no trail .