nine o'clock
I know it was , know I killed my baby ; but I did not mean to . I would give my life for hers , if like her I was ready , '' and into Katy 's face there came a look of fear which Morris failed to understand , not knowing Wilford as well as Katy knew him . Surely no man could reproach the half-crazed creature , who all that night sat by the bedside of her dead child , sleeping a little in her chair , but obtaining no real rest , so that by the morning her face was like some white rose on which a fierce storm has beaten , breaking off its petals and crushing out its life . At nine o'clock there came to her a telegram . Wilford had reached New York and would be in Silverton that afternoon , accompanied by Bell . At this last Marian Hazelton caught eagerly as an excuse for what she intended doing . She could not remain there after Wilford came , nor was it necessary .