nearly ten o'clock
`` The fox came and I ran for it -- then I fell -- and then the little hound came , and then -- '' Mary was bathing his forehead , and for the first time he saw her . `` I stumbled , Mary , '' he whispered . `` I swear it . '' * * * * * * It was nearly ten o'clock when I left Weston 's room . The doctor was with him and was preparing to bivouac at the patient 's side . He was a young man from the big valley . Luther Warden had driven to the county town and brought him back to us .