eight o'clock
`` You are not ready to pay it , I suppose ; and you got it from me when we left Fort Raines , to help you out of that scrape there . '' The soldier looked down and made no answer . `` Merrick , I want a note taken to town at once . I want _ you _ to take it and get it to its address before eight o'clock . I want you to say no word to a soul . Here 's ten dollars . Hire old Murphy 's horse across the river and _ go _ .