six o'clock
`` I 'm not going yet , '' the hunter said . `` Before I start we 'll go down to Trenton Ferry , a mile below the town . Ef they come over at all , it 's likely enough to be there . There 'll be time then to get back and cross before it 's light ; It 's six o'clock now . '' They kept along the road by the river until they were within a quarter of a mile of the ferry . Presently they saw a dark mass ahead . `` Jerusalem ! ''