about ten o'clock in the morning
Mr. Rushton returned to Winchester at twilight . On Monday morning Verty rode into the town , and dismounted at the door of the law office . Three days after the events which we have just related , or rather after the introduction of the reader to the three localities with which our brief history will concern itself , Mr. Roundjacket was sitting on his high stool in one corner of the office , preparing the papers in a friendly suit in Chancery . It was about ten o'clock in the morning , and Verty , who rode home every evening , had just come in and had taken his seat at the desk in the corner appropriated to him , beneath the small dingy window , looking out upon the yard . Longears was stretched at his feet . Verty 's face was more dreamy and thoughtful than ever . The dim smile still dwelt upon his lips , and though his countenance had as much of the forest Indian character as ever , there was a languor about the drooping eyelids , with their long lashes , and a stoop in the usually erect neck , which betrayed the existence in the boy 's mind of some ever-present sadness .