nine o'clock
`` Then I noticed that Wolf Tusk was tied to a tree in a manner similar to myself , and around him had been collected a quantity of firewood . This firewood , was not piled up to his feet , but formed a circle at some distance from him , so that the Indian would be slowly roasted . `` There is no use in my describing what took place . When I tell you that they lit the fire at nine o'clock , and that it was not until four in the afternoon that Wolf Tusk died , you will understand the peculiar horror of it . '' ` Now , ' said the leader to me when everything was over , ' here is the report I have written out , ' and he read to me the report which I have read to you . '' ` This dead villain has murdered our wives and our children . If I could have made his torture last for two weeks I would have done so .