about eight o'clock
Nothin ' would surprise me now . He 's dead sure to git profit out of 'em . '' That very evening Henley took even another step in his amusing enterprise . He returned to the store after supper and sat writing letters till about eight o'clock . Then he got up , brushed his clothes , and made Pomp polish his boots , and adjusted his black string tie before a glass over the water-pail and basin . Then he went out and walked leisurely up the street till he came to the dark stairway of a little public hall over a feed-store . He ascended the steps with a respectful tread and entered the hall .