three o'clock
When it was publicly learned that the doctor and his son and the negro were still alive , it required a specially detailed policeman to prevent people from scaling the front porch and interviewing these sorely wounded . One old lady appeared with a miraculous poultice , and she quoted most damning Scripture to the officer when he said that she could not pass him . Throughout the night some lads old enough to be given privileges or to compel them from their mothers remained vigilantly upon the kerb in anticipation of a death or some such event . The reporter of the Morning Tribune rode thither on his bicycle every hour until three o'clock . Six of the ten doctors in Whilomville attended at Judge Hagenthorpe 's house . Almost at once they were able to know that Trescott 's burns were not vitally important . The child would possibly be scarred badly , but his life was undoubtedly safe .