about two in
the morning
Lamps made them worse -- brought them in thicker shoals . He gazed out at the twinkling lights of the vessels at anchor in the harbour . There were many ships in the roadway to-night , a sight which would ordinarily have pleased him , but his thoughts were in sharp contrast now to his comfortable , contented thoughts of a few hours ago . The Bishop spent rather a wakeful night , that is , until about two in the morning , at which hour he settled his problem and fell asleep . It finally resolved itself in his mind as a matter for him to let alone . He could not better it , and had not the smallest intention of making a martyr of himself , of resigning his office , or of incurring any of the other disagreeable experiences which beset the path of the moral crusader . No , he could do nothing , for at two o'clock , as we have said , he had arrived at the conclusion that the evil -- if such it could be called , since there was considerable doubt on the subject -- had reached a magnitude which no single individual could deal with .