About four o'clock
'T was the night of the big meeting at the Tabernacle , when Israel kept it up for six hours , one lot coming and another going -- the Isle o ' Man fleet being in -- that was the night of all nights in the year that Dick Wilkes must choose for to die in . Aught more contrary than that man ca n't be thought of . `` It happened just so , as I say . About four o'clock we were all of us shut up in the kitchen , and by that we knew -LRB- Jerry and I , at least -RRB- that Dick Wilkes had company -- also that so far as repentance went , old Israel 's goose was cooked till he had another turn at his man . And then after six we heard him shouting that he was going to die -- which seemed strange to us . For we could hear him tearing at his sea-chest and stamping about his room , which is not what is expected of a dying man . `` But Dick knew better .