about eight o'clock
asked McCall . `` Through that . '' Brasher was standing on the threshold separating both rooms and was pointing to the porthole in which was fixed a circular fan . Brasher continued : `` We came here about eight o'clock , or mebbe a quarter after . Mr. Miller used to get up very early . When he was n't down for breakfast this mornin ' and the people down stairs knowin ' he had an appointment with Judge Higginbotham , they came up and called . When there was no answer to their callin ' and knockin ' they called us up .