one o'clock
He caught Emil 's horse by the bit and led it out . He could not have buckled a bridle on his own . After two or three attempts , he lifted himself into the saddle and started for Hanover . If he could catch the one o'clock train , he had money enough to get as far as Omaha . While he was thinking dully of this in some less sensitized part of his brain , his acuter faculties were going over and over the cries he had heard in the orchard . Terror was the only thing that kept him from going back to her , terror that she might still be she , that she might still be suffering . A woman , mutilated and bleeding in his orchard -- it was because it was a woman that he was so afraid .