ten o'clock
`` You will come now , '' she said , and her hands began to move ominously beneath her apron . `` To be sho ' , '' he said as he walked out with her . `` I did n't know you felt that away about it , sis . '' It was after ten o'clock when the quick roll of a buggy came up to the door , and Richard Travis and Charley Biggers alighted . They had both been drinking . Slowly , surely , Travis was going down in the scale of degeneracy . Slowly the loose life he was leading was lowering him to the level of the common herd .