ten o'clock
Loot ` nant Boynton and Loot ` nant Davies was everywhere at once , and after trying two dashes the Indians gave it up and kept at long range . They was a thousand strong at least , and Elk came in with a white flag for a parley , and Mr. Boynton ordered him back , but McPhail let him in . He said we must give up Red Dog or they 'd burn the agency over our heads and massacre every man , and McPhail was for letting him go then , but Mr. Boynton and he had words over it , and they kept him . That night was cloudy and the moon was hid , and sure enough at ten o'clock they crawled in on the storehouse side and heaped up timber under them flimsy pine boards , and no one could see them on that side until everything was in a broad blaze . It was when trying to bucket out the fire the lieut ` nant was shot , and it was a roaring conflagration in five minutes , and from that it spread to the agency and the other shebangs , and it was all we could do to get the women and children out of the cellars and into the corral , and them bucks firing from every sage brush for a mile around . The whole thing was down by midnight , but it did n't do them no good : we was really better off with less to take care of and more men to do it with , and we had wather in the well and rations for all hands , and the agent and his non-combatants under cover in one corner of the stockade , and Red Dog tied up in another . All Sunday they kept up a long-range fire , and five or six times made as though they was going to charge , but Loot ` nant Davies was on all four sides of that square from dawn till dark , sir , and they never got within four hundred yards that we did n't drop them .