eight o'clock
`` Do you know that the old Squire 's got ten men out searching the woods for you ? Why , the folks at home are scared half to death ! '' We were not sorry to see Asa and Davis , and to have help for the long pull homeward . We made a start , and after a very hard tramp we finally reached the old farm , thoroughly tired out , at eight o'clock that evening . Theodora and grandmother were so affected at seeing us back that they actually shed tears . The old Squire said little ; but it was plain to see that he was greatly relieved . If the day had been a fatiguing one for us , it had been doubly so for poor Halstead .