about three minutes past six
But I only propped it open about two or three inches ; just enough for me to see out of it up the road good . And I made me a kind of pallet out of meal sacks and I laid down there and I waited . I knew the mill had shut down for the week , and I did n't figure on any of the hands being round the mill or anybody finding out I was up there . So I waited , not hearing anybody stirring about downstairs at all , until just about three minutes past six , when all of a sudden came the first shot . `` What threw me off was expecting the Tatums to come afoot from up the road , but when they did come it was in a wagon from down the main Blandsville pike clear round in the other direction . So at this first shot I swung and peeped out and I seen Harve Tatum down in the dust seemingly right under the wheels of his wagon , and I seen Jess Tatum jump out from behind the wagon and shoot , and I seen Dudley Stackpole come out of the mill door right directly under me and start shooting back at him . There was no sign of his brother Jeffrey .