about eight o'clock
With which final remark he shot out of the room . Then Doctor Bainbridge took his departure , and I retired to sleep and to dream of fiery craters , with snakes crawling out of them , and gigantic roosters picking up the snakes one by one and dropping them over a mountain of salt into a lake of boiling water . I was pleased when morning came , and I heard the comparatively cheering tinkle from bells on the team of mules drawing the little `` bob-tail '' street-car past the hotel . The ELEVENTH Chapter On the following evening Bainbridge came to my room as he had promised , arriving at about eight o'clock . I had not that day accompanied him on his visit to Peters , who it seems was daily gaining strength . I had spent my day in reading , except that Arthur had repeatedly come to my room , remaining for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time as his duties would permit , being curious to learn from me `` some of the things about that ante-arctic country , '' etc. . He was much interested in the subject , and studied with close attention the map made by Doctor Bainbridge .