ten o'clock
`` I 'm your man for one , '' said Henry . All the others promptly volunteered , also , but it was arranged that Paul and Long Jim should stay behind to help the garrison , while Henry , Shif ` less Sol , and Tom Ross should go with Boone and Kenton . But it was agreed , also , that they should not go forth until night , when the darkness would favor their forest inquiries . The five had slept very late , and it was past ten o'clock when they went out into the large , open space that lay between the houses and the palisade . All signs of the storm were gone . The forest might give proof of its passage , but here it was as if it had never been . A gentle wind blew , and the boughs moved softly and peacefully before it .