about six o'clock
Tell me -- '' `` When he did n't get up , his usual time this morning , I did n't think anything of it . I did n't want to go up to disturb him . At eight o'clock I went up to his room , he was n't there . Martha said she heard him outside about six o'clock , or perhaps a little earlier . `` She did n't think anything of it ; he often did that . We felt he was safe , the water is too shallow to drown between here and the float . But -- '' Her arms went about him convulsively and she broke into violent sobbing .