ten o'clock
Even the general failed to cheer and reassure him . He blamed himself for everything and shrank even from his friends . They saw the dim glow of the student lamp in his quarters , as they jingled cheerily away . They were coming homeward , toward ten o'clock . The moon was shining brilliantly along the bold heights of the southern bank , and , insensibly , chat and laughter gradually ceased as they came again in sight of the twinkling lights of Frayne , and glanced aloft at a new-made scaffolding , standing black against the sky at the crest of Fetterman Bluff . `` Eagle Wing roosts high , '' said a thoughtless youngster . `` The general let them have their way to the last .