five o'clock in the morning
Old Mr. Lawrence , the Methodist minister , was always up at six o'clock , and he could easily marry them in twenty minutes , and that would give them lots of time to catch the train . I would furnish the conveyance to take them to the village , and would also attend to Rebecca 's baggage . Mr. Bridges could have his trunk taken to the station without exciting suspicion . At five o'clock in the morning , I told Rebecca , I would have a horse and buggy tied to a tree by the roadside at a little distance from the doctor 's house where the lovers were to meet . '' ` The night before , Rebecca was to put all the clothes she wanted to take with her in a pillow-case , which she was to carry to a woodshed near the house . Soon after they started in the buggy I would arrive with a spring-wagon and an empty trunk . I would then get the pillow-case , put it into the trunk , and drive to the station by another road . ''