eleven o'clock
By the easiest route they could pick they drove him home . They sent in haste to Breton Junction for a doctor -- not a dog doctor but a people 's doctor . But one of the rocks against which he had been hurled had driven a rib into old Mac 's side . And at eleven o'clock that night , almost at the hour when the hand of God had smitten him , and in the parlour itself , blind Mac , at a call of his name by his master , tapped the floor with his tail for the last time . It was an hour later that Martha discovered the telegram in the pocket of her husband 's hunting coat , which he had thrown over a chair ; and there in the presence of the body they opened it and read : Got the appointment . Love to you and Mother and old Mac . -LRB- signed -RRB- FRANK .