About four o'clock
All we wanted was jest to get away from there and not get mixed up with no nigger problems any more . We eat supper , and we set around a while , and we went to bed purty middling early , so as to get a good start in the morning . We got up early , but early as it was the devil had been up earlier in that neighbourhood . About four o'clock that morning a white woman about a half a mile from the village had been attacked by a nigger . They was doubt as to whether she would live , but if she lived they was n't no doubts she would always be more or less crazy . Fur besides everything else , he had beat her insensible . And he had choked her nearly to death .