eleven o'clock in the morning
There was not a woman in all Heart 's Desire saving those three newcomers in the cabin across the _ arroyo _ . Yet these new-comers were acquainted with the etiquette of the land . There was occasion for public announcement in such matters . At eleven o'clock in the morning the man from Leavenworth and the Littlest Girl from Kansas came out upon the street . They were ostensibly bound to get the mail , although there had been no mail stage for three days , and could be none for four days more , even had the man from Leavenworth entertained the slightest thought of getting any mail at this purely accidental residence into which the fate of a tired team had thrown him . Yet there must be the proper notification that he and his family had concluded to abide in Heart 's Desire ; that he was now a citizen ; that he was now entitled by the length of his beard to be called '' ` Squire , '' and to be accepted into all the councils of the town . This walk along the street was notice to the pure democracy of that land that all might now leave cards at the cabin across the _ arroyo _ .