about ten o'clock
It was planned to ride to the house where the cowboys in charge of that bunch of cattle lived , and there leave the horses . They would proceed on foot up into the hills , where the trails were so rough that horses were of little use . They camped that night at the ranch house , and the boys hardly wanted to go to bed when Jim and some of his acquaintances began to swap stories around the fire . `` Better turn in , '' advised Jim , about ten o'clock . `` Have to be up before sunrise , you know . '' The next morning they tramped for several miles , the country getting wilder and wilder as they proceeded . The trail was up now , for they had entered the region of the foothills .