about eight o'clock in the morning
Last year they declared a forty per cent . dividend . I know the superintendent , and will give you a letter of introduction , whenever you like . '' The colonel bore the matter in mind , and one morning , a day or two after his party , set out by train , about eight o'clock in the morning , for Carthage , armed with a letter from the lawyer to the superintendent of the mills . The town was only forty miles away ; but a cow had been caught in a trestle across a ditch , and some time was required for the train crew to release her . Another stop was made in the middle of a swamp , to put off a light mulatto who had presumed on his complexion to ride in the white people 's car . He had been successfully spotted , but had impudently refused to go into the stuffy little closet provided at the end of the car for people of his class .