eight o’clock
It was a hazy night . The moon showed dimly . The glimpses we now and then got of it enabled us to keep a straight course . It was after eight o'clock when we reached home , and worried enough the folks had been about us . `` The next forenoon we started for the ravine again . We were curious to know how the fight terminated ; besides , it was best to get the trap , if possible , to avert the storm that would burst on Jed 's head when his father came home . Taking a shorter cut through the woods , we reached the place where we had seen the wolves , about eleven o'clock .