six in the morning
He soon returned , and having unlocked the back door and re-lighted his candle , he proceeded to get the barrel into the house and back upon its stand ; a work of immense labor , rendered all the harder by the necessity of keeping silence . Tom was a man of great strength , however , and at last he had the satisfaction of seeing the barrel once more in its place without having heard a sound from the sleepers overhead . Having washed the buckets and tools , he put them back where they came from , locked the door , and for the second time that night went to bed . It was about half-past six in the morning that Tom , happening to look out of the front window , saw Yetmore coming hurriedly up the street , like a hound following the trail of the sled . Stepping to the little window at the rear , Tom peeped out and saw the storekeeper enter the back yard , walk to the spot where the sled had stopped , and stand for a minute examining the marks in the soil . Having apparently satisfied himself , he turned about and went off down the street again . `` What 's he going to do about it , I wonder ? ''