ten o'clock
`` Perhaps there 's a wreck between here and Corinth . '' Tom whispered the news to Brown and Dorsey after they were aboard the train . They exchanged glances . It was ten o'clock that night when the brakeman of the train called , `` Marietta ! '' Dorsey was asleep on the coal box of the car , while Tom and Brown dozed against the door . They had taken turns at the coal box for eight hours . Now they moved stiffly out to the platform , relieved that the journey had ended .