six o'clock
Jethro had given him no instructions whatever , could deny before a jury if need be that he had sent him -LRB- Jake -RRB- to Clovelly to tell Heth Sutton to come to Coniston for instructions on the occasion of his Brampton speech . And Jake was filled with a mysterious importance when he took his seat once more in the conclave . Jake Wheeler , although in many respects a fool , was one of the most efficient pack of political hounds that the state has ever known . By six o'clock on Friday morning he was descending a brook valley on the Clovelly side of the mountain , and by seven was driving between the forest and river meadows of the Rajah 's domain , and had come in sight of the big white house with its somewhat pretentious bay-windows and Gothic doorway ; it might be dubbed the palace of these parts . The wide river flowed below it , and the pastures so wondrously green in the morning sun were dotted with fat cattle and sheep . Jake was content to borrow a cut of tobacco from the superintendent and wonder aimlessly around the farm until Mr. Sutton 's family prayers and breakfast were accomplished . We shall not concern ourselves with the message or the somewhat lengthy manner in which it was delivered .