eight o'clock
And in another moment Blake went silently up the row . The colonel 's orders were that he should guard his comrade until relieved by the officer of the day with his sentries . But the coroner 's jury had investigated still further . The web of circumstantial evidence that had enveloped Ray by eight o'clock that August morning was simply appalling . It summed up about as follows . The sergeant of the guard had been making the rounds of the ordnance and commissary storehouses , and heard voices out on the prairie as of men coming from town ; listening , he recognized those of Hogan and Shea , the latter being Lieutenant Gleason 's orderly . They were apparently coming from the direction of the `` house on the hill , '' as the resort out by the little prairie lake , previously described , was termed , and as they were not boisterous at all , though evidently `` merry , '' he had not gone towards them , but , entering the main gate , he turned to the left to go to the guard-house , and was opposite the second set of company quarters when he heard voices at Lieutenant Gleason 's , excited but unintelligible , then the shot , a scream , and he ran full tilt , not more than two hundred yards , into the house and through the little hall to the back room , where a light was burning .