six o'clock
One hand was clenched on his chest , but his face wore a peaceful look , as if death had come too suddenly to cause him much suffering . His bed was undisturbed ; he had died before retiring , possibly in the act of packing his trunk , for it was found nearly ready for the expressman . Indeed , there was every evidence of his intention to leave on an early morning train . He had even desired to be awakened at six o'clock ; and it was his failure to respond to the summons of the bellboy which led to so early a discovery of his death . He had never complained of any distress in breathing , and we had always considered him a perfectly healthy man ; but there was no reason for assigning any other cause than heart failure to his sudden death , and so the burial certificate was made out to that effect , and I was allowed to bring him home and bury him in our vault at Woodlawn . But '' -- and here her earnestness dried up the tears which had been flowing freely during this recital of her husband 's lonely death and sad burial -- `` do you not think an investigation should be made into a death preceded by a false obituary notice ? For I found when I was in Philadelphia that no paragraph such as I had found pinned to my cushion had been inserted in any paper there , nor had any other man of the same name ever registered at the Colonnade , much less died there . ''