eight o'clock
So when Pap went out an ' shut the door behind him , I wuz kind o ' thankful , ca ` se all the arguin ' an ' jawin ' would stop an ' I could go to sleep ag ` in . Jasper he let down the bolt inside the door . '' ... . It was after eight o'clock when the wagon and its escort entered the outskirts of the town . Grim , imperturbable old dames sitting on their porches smoking their clay or corncob pipes regarded the strange procession with mild curiosity ; toilers in gardens and barnyards merely remarked to themselves that `` some ` pin must ` a happened some'eres '' and called out to housewife or offspring not to let them forget to `` mosey up to the square '' later in the day for particulars , if any . The presence of the sheriff was more or less informing ; it was obvious even to the least sprightly intelligence that somebody had been arrested . But the appearance of Mrs. Gwyn on horseback , riding slowly beside the wagon , was not so easily accounted for .