six o'clock in the evening
`` Why , mother , '' he repeated for the second time that day , `` blest if I know that ! '' Orde was up and out at six o'clock the following morning . By eight he had reported for work at Daly 's mill , where , with the assistance of a portion of the river crew , he was occupied in sorting the logs in the booms . Not until six o'clock in the evening did the whistle blow for the shut-down . Then he hastened home , to find that Newmark had preceded him by some few moments and was engaged in conversation with Grandma Orde . The young man was talking easily , though rather precisely and with brevity . He nodded to Orde and finished his remark .