eleven o'clock
Now I am a loyalist , a devoted servant of King George , and I wear his glorious livery . There can , therefore , be no possible objection to my visit . '' And the old man chuckled as he neared his destination . It was not later than eleven o'clock , but the house was still and dark . There were no lights on the front , and the snow was untrampled on the stairs and sidewalk . Batoche hesitated a moment , fearing that some misfortune might have happened to his friends within the four or five weeks since he had last seen them . But on moving cautiously to the rear , he saw a bright light in the kitchen and a fainter one in an upper room .