about three o'clock
`` There 's devilment hatchin ' , I 'm afraid , '' he answered . `` Wait till I wake Jud . '' He aroused the man from his snoring in the chimney corner , and I got into my clothes . It was about three o'clock and grey dark . I looked over the room as I pulled on the roundabout borrowed of Roy . Ump 's bed had not been slept in , and there was about him the warm smell of a horse . Jud noticed the empty bed .