the ten o'clock
evening
As to what happened downstairs . For some unexplainable reason I know the story as well as though I had been a witness to my father 's discomfiture . One in time gets to know many unexplainable things . On that evening young Joe Kane , son of a merchant of Bidwell , came to Pickleville to meet his father , who was expected on the ten o'clock evening train from the South . The train was three hours late and Joe came into our place to loaf about and to wait for its arrival . The local freight train came in and the freight crew were fed . Joe was left alone in the restaurant with father .