About six o'clock
We had to beat them . Whereupon the six jealous canines fell to fighting among themselves , and fought so savagely as to be deaf to our cries and insensible to blows . They had to be torn apart and chained . About six o'clock Lawson loped in with the horses . Of course he did not know we had a cougar , and no one seemed interested enough to inform him . Perhaps only Frank and I thought of it ; but I saw a merry snap in Frank 's eyes , and kept silent . Kitty had hidden behind the pine tree .