about eight o'clock
`` It 's time this thing was brought to a head , '' said one man . `` If Danny Randall is taking hold of it , I enlist . '' I returned to report these facts , received an indifferent nod , and , under further instruction , went quietly to camp to await the agreed hour . We started up the trail about eight o'clock . Yank insisted that he was going , if he had to roll all the way ; but after a little we simultaneously remembered that the Moreñas had owned horses . One of these I caught , and on it Yank rode to the place of rendezvous . The night was very black .