ten o'clock
The Hollmans regarded the truce as still effective . The fact that they were permitting him to ride out alive was a wordless assurance of that . Incidentally , he stood vindicated in the eyes of his own people . When Samson reached the mill it was ten o'clock . The men were soberer than they had been in the afternoon . McCager had seen to that . The boy replaced his exhausted mule with a borrowed mount .