ten at night
`` Yes , Joseph ; but this is just a case where we have to show our faith . I know that God loves us and that keeps me up , '' said Sarah , though her voice trembled as she spoke . All this time her dear little ones might be starving , or dying of thirst , or have been carried off by the blacks , or have fallen into a water-hole . It was near ten at night when Troloo came back . It was some time before he could make his friends understand that the black fellows , to the number of fifty , or more , were camped at a spot , to reach which , from the hut , would take about an hour . They had been having a war dance , he said , and that showed that they were about to attack the place . They were armed with spears and clubs and boomerangs .