seven o'clock
When , a little past midnight , she took it from her dress pocket she noticed what had before escaped her -- some erratic writing in lead on the back of the envelop . It was in the doctor 's strenuous hand . `` Willyam Pens as good as yoorn ive got them all promist but your pop to wote for you at the bored meating saterdy its to be a surprize party for your pop . '' At half-past seven o'clock on Saturday evening , the School Board once more convened in the hotel parlor , for the purpose of electing Fairchilds 's successor . `` Up till now , '' Mr. Getz had remarked at the supper-table , `` I ai n't been tole of no candidate applyin ' fur William Penn , and here to-night we meet to elect him -- or her if she 's a female . '' Tillie 's heart had jumped to her throat as she heard him , wondering how he would take it when they announced to him that the applicant was none other than his own daughter -- whether he would be angry at her long deception , or gratified at the prospect of her earning so much money -- for , of course , it would never occur to him that she would dare refuse to give him every cent she received . There was unwonted animation in the usually stolid faces of the School Board to-night ; for the members were roused to a lively appreciation of the situation as it related to Jake Getz .