eight o'clock
He 's such an old saloon hater , Hans Wyker 'd like to kill him . But say , why not tell me now what you are about , so I can be looking up references and former judicial decisions handed down in similar cases ? '' Thaine asked lightly . `` Because it 's too long a story , and I must get Pryor to the eight o'clock limited , '' Leigh said . The crowing of chickens in a far away farmyard came faintly at that moment , and Thaine with a strange new sense of the importance of living , sent the black horses cantering down the trail to the old Cloverdale Ranch house . Jo Bennington slept late . She had been up late .