half after two
Kate wo n't say -- anything . It 's the first time she ever kept a secret from me . '' And now tears of genuine distress were welling in Mrs. Sumter 's eyes . It was half after two , and the wind was shrieking through the open space back of the line , when Doctor Larrabee , bending almost double , managed to fight his way homeward . Schuchardt , occupant of the adjoining set to his own , had not yet returned . At Sumter 's gate the senior surgeon encountered the corporal-of-the-guard , nearly blind and well nigh exhausted . He had been sent round to relieve the men on post and bid them make the best of their way to the guard-room .