eight o'clock
For comment Mr. Wharton tipped back in his chair and once more let his eye wander over the boy 's face ; then he wheeled abruptly around to his desk , opened a drawer , and took out a yellow card across which he scrawled a line with his fountain pen . `` You may begin work to-morrow morning , '' he remarked curtly . `` If it is pleasant , Stevens will be cutting the further meadow with a gang of men . Come promptly at eight o'clock , prepared to stay all day , and bring this card with you . '' He waved the bit of pasteboard to and fro in the air an instant to be certain that the ink on it was dry and afterward handed it to Ted . Instinctively the boy 's gaze dropped to the message written upon it and before he realized it he had read the brief words : `` Ted Turner . He says he has farmed in Vermont .