ten o'clock Saturday morning
`` I suppose I 'll go with you , '' said North grudgingly . `` Of course you will , '' agreed the sheriff . He had never entertained any doubts on this point . It was ten o'clock Saturday morning when North and the sheriff left the east-bound express at Mount Hope and climbed into the bus that was waiting for them . North 's annoyance had given place to a certain humorous appreciation of the situation . His plans had gone far astray in the past forty-eight hours , and here he was back in Mount Hope . Decidedly his return , in the light of his parting with Elizabeth , was somewhat in the nature of an anticlimax .