nine o'clock
At this Miss Doc felt her heart give a stroke of pain , for something that was almost divination of things desolate in the little fellow 's short years of babyhood was granted to her woman 's understanding . `` Bruvver Jim will come , '' she said , as she knelt beside the bed . `` He 'll come back home to the baby . '' But nine o'clock and ten went by , and only the storm outside came down from the hills to the house . Hour after hour the lamp was burning in the window as a beacon for the traveller ; hour after hour Miss Dennihan watched the fever and the weary little fellow in its toils . At half-past ten the blacksmith , the carpenter , and Kew came , Tintoretto , the pup , coldly trembling , at their heels . Jim was not yet back , and the rough men made no concealment of their worry .