eleven o'clock
For all that , he was going . There was no need for an early start , because he did not want to arrive in daylight and the distance was not great . Then he meant to avoid the high roads , and after a talk with Pete picked out his route across the hills . It was eleven o'clock when they set off , and they spent an hour sheltering behind a dyke while a snowstorm broke upon the moor . The snow was wet and did not lie , but the soaked grass and ling afterwards clung about their feet and made walking laborious . The sky was gray and lowering and there was a bitter wind , but they pushed on across the high moors , and when the light was going saw a gap in a long ridge in front . Foster thought this marked the way down to the Garth .