eight o'clock
`` This lad , Mace , came to us and declared that he had seen in the possession of the Jordan boy a diamond bracelet stolen from his uncle at Tipton , the town that both of them came from . '' `` Well ? '' `` He had telegraphed for his uncle to come on at once . He expects him on the eight o'clock train . The sheriff said that , in a way , the case being under the jurisdiction of another State , we might hold the accused as a fugitive from justice , pending identification . '' `` Fugitive , nonsense ! identification , fiddlesticks ! ''