eleven o'clock
Trumet spent that evening wondering what had become of Nat Hammond . Captain Zeb Mayo wondered most of all . Yet his wonderment was accompanied by vague suspicions of the truth . And , at eleven o'clock , when the village was in bed , a horse and buggy moved down the Turn-off and stopped before the Hammond gate . A man alighted from the buggy and walked briskly up to the side door . There he knocked and then whistled shrilly . A window overhead was opened .