ten
o'clock
Slowly the boats came back to shore , drawing behind them Hetty 's boat ; bringing one of the oars , and also Hetty 's shawl , which they had found , just where Raby had told them they would , in the wild-grape thicket . `` Found it bottom-side up , '' was all that the men said , as they shoved the boat high up on the sand . Then they all looked in each other 's faces , and said no more . There was nothing more to be done : it was now ten o'clock . Slowly the sad procession wound back to town through the rayless hemlock woods . Midway in them , they met a rider , riding at the maddest gallop . It was the doctor !