one o'clock at night
The important passages ran as follows : `` It is awful news . Our home is burned to the ground , and I am writing this at Mrs. Wood 's where we are all staying . The fire started in the barn -LRB- we think a tramp must have done it -RRB- , and the wind carried the sparks over to the house , and in ten minutes it was all ablaze . It was one o'clock at night , and no one was around to help us . Mother , Grace and I saved all we could , but that was not much , because we did not have time , and it got so awfully hot . When the fire was out , Charlie made us all go over to his house , and sent a team over for what stuff we had saved . `` Mother is awfully excited , and Grace is sick over it .