about 2 A.M.
Her name was Agnes Pope . The other servant was an elderly woman , who had been in the house all her life , but was unfortunately deaf . She had known very well about the money , and had always been afraid about it ; had very often spoken to her master about it , but never a word to Agnes . She had been woken in the night , -- that was , as it turned out , about 2 A.M. , -- by the girl who slept with her , and who declared that she had heard a great noise , as of somebody tumbling , -- a very great noise indeed , as though there were ever so many people tumbling . For a long time , for perhaps an hour , they had lain still , being afraid to move . Then the elder woman had lighted a candle , and gone down from the garret in which they slept . The first thing she saw was the body of her master , in his shirt , upon the stairs .