About ten o'clock
Last of all Paisley shook me by the hand and told me I 'd acted square and on the level with him and he was proud to call me a friend . `` The preacher had a small house on the side of the street that he 'd fixed up to rent ; and he allowed me and Mrs. Hicks to occupy it till the ten-forty train the next morning , when we was going on a bridal tour to El Paso . His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy , and it looked real festal and bowery . `` About ten o'clock that night I sets down in the front door and pulls off my boots a while in the cool breeze , while Mrs. Hicks was fixing around in the room . Right soon the light went out inside ; and I sat there a while reverberating over old times and scenes . And then I heard Mrs. Hicks call out , ` Ai n't you coming in soon , Lem ? ' '' ` Well , well ! '