eight o'clock
Many years ago the Senator , your father , did a kind turn for my brother -- an employé in the Treasury . If I can be of any aid to you in this painful business , pray give me a chance to show a kindness to the family of a great and good man . My name is Charles Bevan , and it is signed to one of the papers in this letter . '' Within an hour all was ready , but they could not set out until the next morning , when , by eight o'clock , the three ladies were _ en route _ . There was a large company with them , all under a flag of truce . They passed through the long lines of soldiery that lay intrenched on the Virginia side of the Potomac , and pushed on to Annandale , where the rebel outpost received them . Olympia 's eyes dwelt on the wide-stretching lands of pine and oak , remembering the pictures Jack had given in his letters of this very same route .