two o'clock before
`` No , ma , '' she said ; `` my conscience is just like them children -- sleeping so hard it would take Gabriel 's trumpet to wake 'em up . It 's more tired than I am . '' `` All right , '' said ma , with finality ; `` we will now proceed to refresh ourselves . '' It was two o'clock before they separated for the remainder of the night . Code 's room , with its big mahogany double bed , was given over to Nellie and the children while he gladly resigned himself to the humpy plush sofa . By this time they had received news from half a dozen neighbors that Bill Boughton 's general store had been only half destroyed and that the contents had all been saved . The wharfs and fish-houses were at last burning and property on the leeward side of the flames was declared to be safe .