About nine o'clock
The door slammed , and all was silent . The boy evidently had run away , and Ted was left alone in the house with the dead man . Once more darkness descended upon the earth , and Ted took up another hole in his belt , and tried to believe that he was not hungry . About nine o'clock Ted , who was lying on the couch looking at the ceiling , saw a faint flicker of light pass across it , and sprang to his feet . It was the light cast by a lantern somewhere outside . He sprang to the window and looked out . Behind the brick wall he could see the reflection of a bobbing lantern , and hear the shuffle of many feet .