ten o'clock
It was dark before they commenced their journey , for the officers did not want the men to know of the affair . They reached the farm house of Mr. Condit and prepared to enter it and begin operations . The cart and mule were left under some trees . It was now ten o'clock , and the house was quite dark . Slowly they crept up to it , Terrence asking himself if the farmer had heeded his warning . Like many farm-house cellars , there was a trap door opening on the outside . To this cellar door they made their way .