about eleven o’clock
It was after eight o'clock when we reached home , and worried enough the folks had been about us . `` The next forenoon we started for the ravine again . We were curious to know how the fight terminated ; besides , it was best to get the trap , if possible , to avert the storm that would burst on Jed 's head when his father came home . Taking a shorter cut through the woods , we reached the place where we had seen the wolves , about eleven o'clock . `` No sound was heard save the rippling of the stream among the rocks . We stole cautiously to the boulder , where we had stood the night before , and looked from behind it . Nothing was in sight . '' '