about six o'clock
I worked energetically and soon produced something like order . I had been home about a week when I received another letter from my father 's lawyer , who resided in New York , stating that my presence was absolutely required in that city to sign certain documents relative to my father 's property , and advising me to come at once . I did not hesitate to obey his wishes , and that same evening entered the cars for New York . It was about six o'clock when we started , and I took a seat in the rear end of the car . For some miles I was alone , but a young gentleman of about eighteen got into the car from a way station and sat down by my side . I could see by the dim light that he was very polite and we had quite an agreeable conversation together . By and by it grew quite dark , for the lamp stationed in the middle of the car threw very little light where we sat .