eight o'clock
Then she threw back her head and laughed ; peal on peal of deliciously childish laughter rang through the ancient net-shed , until , overhead , the passing gulls echoed her mirth with querulous mewing , and the sea-hawk , towering to the zenith , wheeled and squealed . At seven o'clock that morning the men in the circus camp awoke , worried , fatigued , vaguely resentful , unusually profane . Horan was openly mutinous , and announced his instant departure . By eight o'clock a miraculous change had taken place ; the camp was alive with scurrying people , galvanized into hopeful activity by my possibly unwarranted optimism and a few judiciously veiled threats . Clothed with temporary authority by Byram , I took the bit between my teeth and ordered the instant erection of the main tents , the construction of the ring , barriers , and benches , and the immediate renovating of the portable tank in which poor little Miss Claridge had met her doom . I detailed Kelly Eyre to Quimperlé with orders for ten thousand crimson hand-bills ; I sent McCadger , with Dawley , the bass-drummer , and Irwin , the cornettist , to plaster our posters from Pont Aven to Belle Isle , and I gave them three days to get back , and promised them a hundred dollars apiece if they succeeded in sticking our bills on the fortifications of Lorient and Quimper , with or without permission . I sent Grigg and three exempt Bretons to beat up the country from Gestel and Rosporden to Pontivy , clear across to Quiberon , and as far east as St. Gildas Point .