eight o'clock
The day passed away in fruitless parleys , and at night the fever naturally rose , as is the way of fevers . When nightfall came , the crowd had become so great , in the public square that Farnham thought it might be better not to march his improvised policemen in a body up-town . He therefore dispatched orders to Kendall to send them up with their arms , singly or by twos and threes , to his house . By eight o'clock they were all there , and he passed an hour or so in putting them through a rude form of drill and giving them the instructions which he had prepared during the day . His intention was to keep them together on his own place during the early part of the night , and if , toward midnight , all seemed quiet , to scatter them as a patrol about the neighborhood ; in case of serious disturbance anywhere else , to be ready to take part in restoring order . About nine o'clock a man was seen coming rapidly from the house to the rear garden , where Farnham and his company were . The men were dispersed about the place ; some on the garden seats , some lying on the grass in the clear moonlight .