nine in the morning
Here he was only the richest tourist since Farwell , the diamond smuggler from Amsterdam , had touched there in his yacht . -LSB- Illustration : The boar hunt . -RSB- The week of boar-hunting was spent out-of-doors , on horseback , and in tents ; the women in two wide circular ones , and the men in another , with a mess tent , which they shared in common , pitched between them . They had only one change of clothes each , one wet and one dry , and they were in the saddle from nine in the morning until late at night , when they gathered in a wide circle around the wood-fire and played banjoes and listened to stories . Holcombe grew as red as a sailor , and jumped his horse over gaping crevasses in the hard sun-baked earth as recklessly as though there were nothing in this world so well worth sacrificing one 's life for as to be the first in at a dumb brute 's death . He was on friendly terms with them all now -- with Miss Terrill , the young girl who had been awakened by night and told to leave Monte Carlo before daybreak , and with Mrs. Darhah , who would answer to Lady Taunton if so addressed , and with Andrews , the Scotch bank clerk , and Ollid the boy officer from Gibraltar , who had found some difficulty in making the mess account balance . They were all his very good friends , and he was especially courteous and attentive to Miss Terrill 's wants and interests , and fixed her stirrup and once let her pass him to charge the boar in his place .