twelve o’clock
In sullen submission he did as he had been told . The keys of Allan 's baggage was given to the foreign traveling servant whom he had brought with him , and the man was instructed to wait his master 's orders at the terminus hotel . In a minute more the cab was on its way out of the station -- with Midwinter and Allan inside , and Mr. Bashwood by the driver on the box . * * * * * Between eleven and twelve o'clock that night , Miss Gwilt , standing alone at the window which lit the corridor of the Sanitarium on the second floor , heard the roll of wheels coming toward her . The sound , gathering rapidly in volume through the silence of the lonely neighborhood , stopped at the iron gates . In another minute she saw the cab draw up beneath her , at the house door . The earlier night had been cloudy , but the sky was clearing now and the moon was out .