about eight
o'clock
`` No , no , '' returned the dentist ; `` I got something else to do . '' The brilliant lights of a saloon near the City Hall caught his eye . He decided he would have another drink of whiskey . It was about eight o'clock . The following day was to be a fete day at the kindergarten , the Christmas and New Year festivals combined . All that afternoon the little two-story building on Pacific Street had been filled with a number of grand ladies of the Kindergarten Board , who were hanging up ropes of evergreen and sprays of holly , and arranging a great Christmas tree that stood in the centre of the ring in the schoolroom . The whole place was pervaded with a pungent , piney odor .