nearly nine o'clock
With him lodged Miss Edna Parkinson and Miss Mary Willing . These young ladies were bosom friends , and members of the Women 's Christian Temperance Union . We describe them adequately enough by adding that they were capable , pretty and good . By this time it was nearly nine o'clock , but a light shone in the Greiffenhagen parlour . As the young men dismounted and hitched their horses to the fence , the strains from an American organ were heard . Pete rapped upon the door , which was opened by Greiffenhagen . He kept the village store , which was also the post-office , and , although German himself , had married an American wife .