eight o'clock
The old maid covered her head and kicked and yelled , and the dog snarled and bit Pa on the pants , and Pa had his vest off and his suspenders unbuttoned , and he got scared and took his coat and vest and went out in the hall , and I opened our door and told Pa he was in the wrong room , and he said he guessed he knowed it , and he came in our room and I locked the door , and then the bell boy , and the porter , and the clerk came up to see what ailed the old maid , and she said a burglar got in the room , and they found Pa 's hat on the lounge , and they took it and told her to be quiet and they would find the burglar . Pa was so scared that he sweat like everything , and the bed was offul warm , and he pretended to go to sleep , but he was wondering how he could get his hat back . In the morning I told him it would be hard work to explain it to Ma how he happened to get into the wrong room , and he said it was n't necessary to say anything about it to Ma . Then he gave me five dollars to go out and buy him a new hat , and he said I might keep the change if I would not mention it when I got home , and I got him one for ten shillings , and we took the eight o'clock train in the morning and came home , and I spose the Chicago detectives are trying to fit Pa 's hat onto a burglar . Pa seemed offully relieved when we got across the state line into Wisconsin . But you 'd a dide to see him come out of that old lady 's room with his coat and vest on his arm , and his suspenders hanging down , looking scart . He dassent lick me any more or I 'll tell Ma where Pa left his hat . ''