about ten o’clock at night
It was a disaffected town , and Friends of the People were very strong there . His first duty was to get a lodging , his second to get work , and his third to find out a minister of God under whom he could worship . He put this last , not because it was the least important , but because he had the most time to decide upon it . At about ten o'clock at night he came to his journey 's end , and to his joy saw his wife waiting for him . They went at once to a small inn hard by , and Mrs. Coleman began to overwhelm him with interrogation ; but he quietly suggested that not a syllable should be spoken till they had had some rest , and that they should swallow their supper and go to bed . In the morning Zachariah rose and looked out of the window . He saw nothing but a small backyard in which some miserable , scraggy fowls were crouching under a cart to protect themselves from the rain , which was falling heavily through the dim , smoky air .