about four
o'clock
That little band of eight hundred Americans gathered round Sam Houston , and defying Santa Anna to enslave them , filled his mind . He could see them retreating across the country , always interposing themselves between their families and the foe ; hasting toward the settlements on the Trinity River , carrying their wounded and children as best they could . Every man , women , and child called him ; and he cast his lot in with theirs , never caring what woe or weal it might bring him . The Bishop had promised to call at the hotel for him about four o'clock . John went no farther . He sat there all day talking over the circumstances of Texas . Nor could the Bishop resist the enthusiasm .