about two in the morning
Oh , my God , it is awful ! Mother and Alice were sitting beside the corral gate weeping fit to break their hearts over the dead body of father when I found them . And the story , as I learned it , sir , was simple -- horribly , terribly simple . They were roused at about two in the morning by the dogs barking . Father , thinking timber wolves were around , went out with a gun . He saw nothing till he got to the corrals . Then mother , watching from her window , saw the flash of several guns , and heard the rattle of their reports .