about two o'clock
`` Nothing ; remain with your company . I shall not need you , for I doubt if I get back before day , and there is nothing for me to fear in this place . '' Allen started one way and I another . It was now about two o'clock , I thought ; the sky was almost clear , and I could see about me . I passed rapidly through the woods again and into the open ground , climbing a rail fence , and went up a very gentle slope that rose before me , an `` old field , '' or abandoned farm , which was scattered over here and there with clumps of stunted growth . Once I paused in terror . A bush had taken , to my fancy , the form of a man .